Diana Maltz

Biographic Data

ID3425530
NAMEDiana Maltz
GIVEN NAMESDiana
FAMILY NAMEMaltz
SIGNATUREMALTZ D
AFFILIATIONSSouthern Oregon University
ORCID0000-0002-9391-2724
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Counterculture in the Writings of the Hocking Siblings, 1900–1905

    Diana MaltzARTICLEJournal for the Study of Radicalism2025

  • On the Fiddle: Part-Time Crime on and Beyond the ‘Worst’ Streets of London in Twentieth-Century Working-Class Autobiographies

    Diana MaltzARTICLEThe London Journal2023

    Writers of working-class memoirs in the twentieth century recalled the psychological ways that respectable individuals managed their relation to London's most disreputable streets. The Victorian social cartographer Charles Booth had colour-coded these streets as black on his poverty maps, ascribing not only penury but also criminality to them. Into the twentieth century, locals continued to internalise a mythology of rough versus respectable area…

  • Thrice‐beloved Belly of Naples: Nostalgia and privation in George Gissing and Matilde Serao

    Open AccessDiana MaltzARTICLELiterature Compass2020

    During visits to Italy between 1888 and 1890, George Gissing immersed himself in fictions by Matilde Serao, a journalist, editor, and leading practitioner of verismo (Italian realism), whose stories focused on the travails of the poor of Naples. Partly as a means of practicing his Italian and partly for his own pleasure, Gissing read serial installments of her novels Addio, Amore! (1890) and Il Paese di Cuccagna (1891). The latter novel, translat…

  • Fire and Snow

    Open AccessMarc Dipaolo, Katherine Downey et al.BOOKFire and Snow2018

    C]lassics are the books that come down to us bearing the traces of readings previous to ours, and bringing in their wake the traces they themselves have left on culture or cultures they passed through (or, more simply, on language and customs).-Italo Calvino, "Why Read the Classics?"Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition

  • Blatherwicks and Busybodies: Gissing on the Culture of Philanthropic Slumming

    Diana MaltzCHAPTERGeorge Gissing2017

    The drunken Bill Blatherwick of George Gissing&s;s Workers in the Dawn feigns blindness and lameness in order to collect alms from the West End bourgeoisie. The scene of Bill Blatherwick and Arthur Golding cadging pennies in the snow not only evokes a Dickensian pathos, but also expresses the doubt of a generation of philanthropists who questioned the effectiveness of almsgiving. This chapter examines Gissing&s;s work in the context of the langua…

  • The Newer New Life: A.S. Byatt, E. Nesbit and Socialist Subculture

    Diana MaltzARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2012

    The Newer New Life: A.S. Byatt, E. Nesbit and Socialist Subculture Diana Maltz In one of the more wittily acerbic passages in E. Nesbit's The New Treasure Seekers (1904), the Bastable children arri

  • Ardent Service: Female Eroticism and New Life Ethics in Gertrude Dix's The Image Breakers (1900)

    Diana MaltzARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2012Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Ardent Service: Female Eroticism and New Life Ethics in Gertrude Dix's The Image Breakers (1900) Get access Diana Maltz Diana Maltz 1Southern Oregon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 17, Issue 2, 1 June 2012, Pages 147–163, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2012.675152 Published: 01 June 2012

  • Living by Design: C. R. Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft and Two English Tolstoyan Communities, 1897–1907

    Open AccessDiana MaltzARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2011Cited by: 1References: 7

    Shortly before C. R. Ashbee transplanted a hundred and fifty Cockneys to Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, in 1902 to form a utopian arts-and-crafts community, two other back-to-the-land settlements were also established, one located outside the market town of Stroud, a mere bicycle ride away from Ashbee and his guild. These Tolstoyan colonies – Purleigh, founded in 1896 in Essex, and Whiteway, founded in 1898 in the Cotswolds – fostered goals o…

  • Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman

    Diana Maltz, Catherine RobsonARTICLESouth Atlantic Review2002

  • Practical Aesthetics and Decadent Rationale in George Gissing

    Open AccessDiana MaltzARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2000

    A YOUNG MAN living on a meager tutor’s salary skimps on his expenses to attend an 1882 commemorative exhibit of D. G. Rossetti’s work at the Royal Academy; he then purchases a volume of Rossetti’s sonnets, and makes a pilgrimage to Cheyne Walk where Rossetti had lived. He adopts Aesthetic style more concretely when he moves into a new flat and furnishes it with a dado and a cabinet papered in a Japanese print. In 1886, he subscribes to the librar…