Category Archives: Volume 21 (2017)

By: Alexander Venetis Abstract: In her seminal work “Modern Fiction” (1925) Virginia Woolf asserts that the most interesting and fruitful way for the modernist novelist to proceed is to appropriate what she calls “the dark places of psychology” into literary writing. The image of “dark places”, especially when put into the context of the psychologyContinue reading “Jamesian and Freudian Rhetoric and Themes in Virginia Woolf’s Literary Manifestos”

By: Rachel Youdelman Abstract: Whimsical, anthropomorphic taxidermy of the Victorian era has been dismissed as marginal novelty. Yet why do we feel it also to be, in some undefined way, emblematic of Victorian visual culture? Anthropomorphic works—such as studious rabbits intent at their desks in a rural village schoolroom, athletic toads playing a frenetic gameContinue reading “Iconic Eccentricity: The Meaning of Victorian Novelty Taxidermy”