Lisa Surridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 5147651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Surridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Surridge |
| SIGNATURE | SURRIDGE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0579-5063 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pregnant
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, we have chosen the word pregnant to catalyze our reflections on what studying the Victorians means to us. Since 2019, our research has focussed on pregnancy in Victorian literature and culture. Our current project, ‘Great Expectations: Pregnancy in Victorian Fiction’, draws on Victorian press coverage; women’s diaries and letters; maternal advice manuals; midwives’ registers;…
The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms
How did Victorian print forms shape experiences of pregnancy? This article focuses on pregnancy calendars, a form that rose to prominence in nineteenth-century Britain and Europe. Such calendars appeared in tabular as well as circular formats and were printed in books, periodicals and pocketbooks designed for both medical practitioners and fertile women. These calendars shaped the nebulous period of human gestation, giving pregnancy narrative for…
Reconceiving Victorian Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Case Study of Ellen Wood's East Lynne and Lord Oakburn's Daughters
Focusing on East Lynne (1860–61) and Lord Oakburn's Daughters (1864) and referring to Victorian advice manuals for pregnant women, this article argues that Ellen Wood centered pregnancy and childbirth as critical experiences of women's lives. In East Lynne , Isabel gives birth to her first child in a difficult labor that nearly kills her; her future adultery originates in the lying-in room; and the final section heightens Isabel's torture as she …
Unremarkable as “the bridge … or the butcher’s wife”: Pregnancy, illegitimacy, and realism in Ellen Wood’s A Tale of Sin
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The authors of this article gratefully acknowledge the editorial advice of Alexandra Wettlaufer and the NCC’s anonymous readers, as well as the research assistance of Joe Diemer.2 After Wood’s death on 10 February 1887, the last stories were published posthumously.3 The byline appears for Wood’s serial novel Bessy Rane in the Argosy’s table of contents for …
From ‘a piece of grossness’ to ‘minute particularity’: Queen Victoria’s First Pregnancy in the British Press
It is a truism that Victorians were prudish about pregnant bodies. Interrogating this assumption, this paper provides a case study of one of the century’s most public pregnancies: that of Queen Victoria with her first child. It tracks press speculations about and discussions of Victoria’s pregnancy from weeks after her 10 February 1840 marriage to Princess Victoria’s 21 November birth. During this period, Victoria’s body was subject to relentless…
Picking Up Threads: Women and Labour in the Nineteenth Century
In July 2019, the two of us arrived in London for a conference on work and leisure in the Victorian period. To further our research project on Victorian pregnancy, we also planned to spend a week v
The Empire Bites Back: The Racialized Crocodile of the Nineteenth Century
As John MacKenzie notes, sport came to carry considerable imperial weight in post-1857 India: as the Indian empire weakened, "hunting represented an increasing concern with the external appearance of authority, the fascination with outward symbols serving to conceal inner weakness". For Victorians, then, the crocodile functioned as a potent symbol of the colonized or racial other, with powerful associations with exoticism and Orientalism. The cro…
Evolutionary Discourse and the Credit Economy in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters
When Elizabeth Gaskell died in November 1865, she left unfinished her final novel, Wives and Daughters (1864–66). The Cornhill Magazine 's editor, Frederick Greenwood, published a tribute to Gaskell with the novel's final installment. Her fiction, he wrote, pulls you from “an abominable wicked world, crawling with selfishness and reeking with base passions into one where there is much weakness, many mistakes, sufferings long and bitter, but where…
The Plot Thickens: Toward a Narratological Analysis of Illustrated Serial Fiction in the 1860s
In Radiant Textuality, Jerome McGann reminds us that the material form of a text always signifies; however, critics have yet to consider the crucial narratological role of illustration in the Victorian serial novel. This study of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensational Eleanor's Victory and Elizabeth Gaskell's realist Wives and Daughters argues that illustration richly complicates the linear development of plot and plays a key role in constituting a…
Working-Class Masculinities in Mary Barton
I N CONSIDERING THE SUBJECT of masculinity in Mary Barton (1848), it is perhaps well to remember that Elizabeth Gaskell conceived the novel as being about a man. “‘John Barton’ was the original title of the book,” she wrote to Mrs. W. R. Greg early in 1849. “Round the character of John Barton all the others formed themselves; he was my hero, the person with whom all my sympathies went . . .” (Letters 42: 74). Gaskell’s letter of 5 January 1849 to…
Working-Class Masculinities in Mary Barton
I N CONSIDERING THE SUBJECT of masculinity in Mary Barton (1848), it is perhaps well to remember that Elizabeth Gaskell conceived the novel as being about a man. “‘John Barton’ was the original title of the book,” she wrote to Mrs. W. R. Greg early in 1849. “Round the character of John Barton all the others formed themselves; he was my hero, the person with whom all my sympathies went . . .” (Letters 42: 74). Gaskell’s letter of 5 January 1849 to…
The Plot Thickens: Toward a Narratological Analysis of Illustrated Serial Fiction in the 1860s
In Radiant Textuality, Jerome McGann reminds us that the material form of a text always signifies; however, critics have yet to consider the crucial narratological role of illustration in the Victorian serial novel. This study of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensational Eleanor's Victory and Elizabeth Gaskell's realist Wives and Daughters argues that illustration richly complicates the linear development of plot and plays a key role in constituting a…
Working-Class Masculinities in Mary Barton
I N CONSIDERING THE SUBJECT of masculinity in Mary Barton (1848), it is perhaps well to remember that Elizabeth Gaskell conceived the novel as being about a man. “‘John Barton’ was the original title of the book,” she wrote to Mrs. W. R. Greg early in 1849. “Round the character of John Barton all the others formed themselves; he was my hero, the person with whom all my sympathies went . . .” (Letters 42: 74). Gaskell’s letter of 5 January 1849 to…
The Plot Thickens: Toward a Narratological Analysis of Illustrated Serial Fiction in the 1860s
In Radiant Textuality, Jerome McGann reminds us that the material form of a text always signifies; however, critics have yet to consider the crucial narratological role of illustration in the Victorian serial novel. This study of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensational Eleanor's Victory and Elizabeth Gaskell's realist Wives and Daughters argues that illustration richly complicates the linear development of plot and plays a key role in constituting a…
Evolutionary Discourse and the Credit Economy in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters
When Elizabeth Gaskell died in November 1865, she left unfinished her final novel, Wives and Daughters (1864–66). The Cornhill Magazine 's editor, Frederick Greenwood, published a tribute to Gaskell with the novel's final installment. Her fiction, he wrote, pulls you from “an abominable wicked world, crawling with selfishness and reeking with base passions into one where there is much weakness, many mistakes, sufferings long and bitter, but where…
The Empire Bites Back: The Racialized Crocodile of the Nineteenth Century
As John MacKenzie notes, sport came to carry considerable imperial weight in post-1857 India: as the Indian empire weakened, "hunting represented an increasing concern with the external appearance of authority, the fascination with outward symbols serving to conceal inner weakness". For Victorians, then, the crocodile functioned as a potent symbol of the colonized or racial other, with powerful associations with exoticism and Orientalism. The cro…
Picking Up Threads: Women and Labour in the Nineteenth Century
In July 2019, the two of us arrived in London for a conference on work and leisure in the Victorian period. To further our research project on Victorian pregnancy, we also planned to spend a week v
From ‘a piece of grossness’ to ‘minute particularity’: Queen Victoria’s First Pregnancy in the British Press
It is a truism that Victorians were prudish about pregnant bodies. Interrogating this assumption, this paper provides a case study of one of the century’s most public pregnancies: that of Queen Victoria with her first child. It tracks press speculations about and discussions of Victoria’s pregnancy from weeks after her 10 February 1840 marriage to Princess Victoria’s 21 November birth. During this period, Victoria’s body was subject to relentless…
Unremarkable as “the bridge … or the butcher’s wife”: Pregnancy, illegitimacy, and realism in Ellen Wood’s A Tale of Sin
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The authors of this article gratefully acknowledge the editorial advice of Alexandra Wettlaufer and the NCC’s anonymous readers, as well as the research assistance of Joe Diemer.2 After Wood’s death on 10 February 1887, the last stories were published posthumously.3 The byline appears for Wood’s serial novel Bessy Rane in the Argosy’s table of contents for …
Pregnant
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, we have chosen the word pregnant to catalyze our reflections on what studying the Victorians means to us. Since 2019, our research has focussed on pregnancy in Victorian literature and culture. Our current project, ‘Great Expectations: Pregnancy in Victorian Fiction’, draws on Victorian press coverage; women’s diaries and letters; maternal advice manuals; midwives’ registers;…
The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms
How did Victorian print forms shape experiences of pregnancy? This article focuses on pregnancy calendars, a form that rose to prominence in nineteenth-century Britain and Europe. Such calendars appeared in tabular as well as circular formats and were printed in books, periodicals and pocketbooks designed for both medical practitioners and fertile women. These calendars shaped the nebulous period of human gestation, giving pregnancy narrative for…
Reconceiving Victorian Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Case Study of Ellen Wood's East Lynne and Lord Oakburn's Daughters
Focusing on East Lynne (1860–61) and Lord Oakburn's Daughters (1864) and referring to Victorian advice manuals for pregnant women, this article argues that Ellen Wood centered pregnancy and childbirth as critical experiences of women's lives. In East Lynne , Isabel gives birth to her first child in a difficult labor that nearly kills her; her future adultery originates in the lying-in room; and the final section heightens Isabel's torture as she …
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