“Words of Healing”: The Literature of Automatic Writing as Treatment and Prescription in the Victorian Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-132
Author(s):  
Jack Rooney
Keyword(s):  
Automatic Writing ◽  
Victorian Age

The Late-Victorian ‘New Man’ and the Neo-Victorian ‘Neo-Man’

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-121
Author(s):  
Margaret D. Stetz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Victorian Fiction ◽  
New Man ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Victorian Age

The New Man was a crucial topic of discussion and a continual preoccupation in late-Victorian feminist writing, precisely because he was more often a wished-for presence than an actual one. Nevertheless, creators of neo-Victorian fiction and film repeatedly project him backwards onto the screen of literary history, representing him as having in fact existed in the Victorian age as a complement to the New Woman. What is at stake in retrospectively situating the New Man – or, as I will call him, the ‘Neo-Man’ – in the nineteenth century, through historical fiction? If one impulse behind fictional returns to the Victorian period is nostalgia, then what explains this nostalgia for The Man Who Never Was? This essay will suggest that neo-Victorian works have a didactic interest in transforming present-day readers, especially men, through depictions of the Neo-Man, which broaden the audience's feminist sympathies, queer its notions of gender relations, and alter its definition of masculinity.

Automatic Writing. II

BMJ ◽  
1893 ◽  
Vol 2 (1718) ◽  
pp. 1225-1226
Keyword(s):  
Automatic Writing

Automatic Writing

BMJ ◽  
1894 ◽  
Vol 1 (1724) ◽  
pp. 104-105
Author(s):  
J. P. Hopps
Keyword(s):  
Automatic Writing

The End of Victorian Values? Women, Religion, and the Death of Queen Victoria

1990 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 481-503
Author(s):  
John Wolffe
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
Queen Victoria ◽  
Magic Lantern ◽  
Victorian Age

In the evening of Tuesday 22 January 1901 Queen Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. At the other end of England, the Mothers’ Union branch at Embleton, on the coast of north Northumberland, was listening to a magic-lantern lecture about ‘Mothers in Many Lands’. The report of that meeting provides a touching cameo of that last hour of the Victorian age:

The Smugglers' Trade: A Neglected Aspect of English Commercial Development

1952 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 131-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Technical Skill ◽  
The Other ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
Illicit Trade ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Victorian Age

Some share—fluctuating and uncertain, but assuredly significant—of English foreign trade in modern times is to be credited to smugglers, who were ever busy in evading customs regulations and prohibitions. Mere administrative watchfulness and thoroughness could never do more than damp their activities; it was only the triumph of free trade in the early Victorian age that deprived them of their livelihood, and until then they were able to match by increase of cunning and of organization the ever more elaborate network of the customs system—its spies, its coastguards and its cutters as well as its routine officials at the ports. The smuggler flourished right down to the end of the period of protection, despite sporadic seizures by the revenue officers. In the first half of the nineteenth century, French wines, brandies and luxury textiles were being punctually shipped across the Channel in the teeth of prohibitions. In the other direction, we know, for instance, of the existence in the same period of so remarkable á phenomenon as the muslin manufacture of Tarare, near Lyons, which relied for its raw material upon the assured supply of English yarn owled abroad. But it was probably the eighteenth century, when customs regulations were at their most burdensome and complicated, that marked the classic epoch of illicit trade, the period in which the technical skill of both breakers and defenders of the law might earn the highest rewards.

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