BERGHAHN JOURNALS

Critical Survey addresses central issues of critical practice and literary theory in a language that is clear, concise, and accessible, with a primary focus on Renaissance and Modern writing and culture. The journal combines criticism with reviews and poetry, providing an essential resource for everyone involved in the field of literary studies.

"A superb journal, fast becoming 'required reading', especially for those interested in cutting-edge work in early modern studies." —Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University

"A lively, inventive and eminently readable journal." —Catherine Belsey

Subjects: English-language Literature

Forthcoming Issue

Volume 24 Issue 1 Spring 2012

ARTICLES

Industrialising Print, Sport, and Authorship: Nimrod, Surtees, and the New Sporting Magazine
YURI COWAN

Tom Brown’s Schooldays: ‘Sportsex’ in Victorian Britain
ANDY HARVEY

Sons of ‘the modern Athens’: The Classical Union of Athletic and Intellectual Masculinities in Charles Reade’s
Hard Cash
MARC DUCUSIN

Not ‘All Ridges and Furrows’ and ‘Uncroquetable Lawns’: Croquet, Female Citizenship, and 1860s Domestic Chronicles
MICHELLE BEISSEL HEATH

Staging Sport: Dion Boucicault, the Victorian Spectacular Theatre, and the Manly Ideal
SHANNON SMITH

Vixens of Venery: Women, Sport, and Fox-Hunting in Britain, 1860–1914
ERICA MUNKWITZ

The Lady Footballers and the British Press, 1895
JAMES F. LEE

The Bi-Cycling Mr Hoopdriver: Counter-Sporting Victorian Reviving the Carnivalesque
YOONJOUNG CHOI

REVIEWS

Notes for Lighting A Fire by Gerry Cambridge
JOHN LUCAS

Notes on Contributors