Review: The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art: Fictional Form on Display by Dehn Gilmore

Jeffrey L. Spear teaches Victorian Literature and Culture at New York University and has published essays on Victorian topics and aspects of colonial India, including: “A South Kensington Gateway from Gwalior to Nowhere,” in SEL, reprinted in volume form in Victorian Hybridities: Cultural Anxiety and Formal Innovation (2010); “Was She This Name?”: Law, Literature and the Devadasi,” in The Letter of the Law: Literature, Justice and the Other (2014); “Knowing the Dancer: East Meets West” (with Avanthi Meduri), in Victorian Literature and Culture (2004); “Of Jews and Ships and Mob Attacks, Of Catholics and Kings: The Strange Career of Lord George Gordon,” in Dickens Studies Annual (2002); and “The Other Arts: Victorian Visual Culture,” in Blackwell’s A Companion to the Victorian Novel (2002). He has just completed an essay on Nina Paley’s animated film Sita Sings the Blues.