I am back

I really need to get back to my primary field after strolling along different genres for stimulation, inspiration and, admittedly, refuge. By all means I returned and started reading some essentials and related works, and found many useful journals and articles.

Sarah Bilston's "'It is Not What We Read, But How We Read': Maternal Counsel on Girls' Reading Practices in Mid-Victorian Literature," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 2008, pp. 1-20.

Karen Junod's "The Lives of the Old Masters: Reading, Writing, and Reviewing the Renaissance," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 2008, pp. 67-82.

John L. Kijinski's "Respectable Reading in the Late Nineties: H.D. Traill's Literature,"Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2003, pp. 357-72.

Jonathan Mulrooney's "Reading the Romantic-period Daily News," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2002, pp. 351-77. The newspaper and its primary means of rapid geographical dissemination. A growing number of nineteenth-century British readers who imagined a relation to public life through the medium of newspapers.

Annika Bautz's "Scott's Victorian Readers," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol. 31, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 19-29. Bautz considers the degree to which Sir Walter Scott's novels were available to Victorian readers by looking at numbers and kinds of editions produced for sale and making comparison with Scott's contemporary Jane Austen.

Mandy Reid's "Racial Profiling: Visualizing Racial Science on the Covers of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852-1928," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol. 30, No. 4, Dec 2008, pp. 369-87. Reading the history of Uncle Tom's Cabin's covers shows us how the changing visual representations of racial differences depicted by the covers functioned as a crucial vehicle for disseminating and normalizing key transition moments in the history of contemporary racial science: the supplanting of monogensis by polygensis as the leading theory of human origins, the impact of evolutionary theory on anthropology, and, finally, the reframing of "race" in eugenics discourse.

Koos Kuiper's "the earliest monument of Dutch Sinological studies: Justus Heurnius's manuscript Dutch-Chinese dictionary and Chinese-Latin Compendium Doctrinae Christianae (Batavia 1628)," Quaerendo: A Quarterly Journal from the Low Countries Devoted to Manuscripts and Printed Books, Vol. 35, No. 1-2, 2005, pp. 109-39.

Priscilla Coit Murphy's "'Down with fiction and up with fact': Publishers Weekly and the postwar shift to nonfiction," Publishing Research Quarterly, Vol. 14, Fall 1998, pp. 29-52. statistics and graphs.