Word: victorianism
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Jerome H. Buckley, a renowned expert on the Victorian era and a former Leverett House master, died Jan. 28 of respiratory failure...
...Professor Buckley was one of the world’s most eminent scholars of his generation in the field of Victorian literature and culture,” Lawrence Buell, chair of the Department of English and American Literature and Language, wrote in an e-mail. “He will be remembered with affection and respect as a valued colleague, teacher and friend...
Buell called Buckley’s best-known book, The Victorian Temper, “one of the field-defining books” in the past half-century, and added that Buckley’s work covered a wide range of topics in Victorian poetry and prose...
...plot, which travels from Peking to Nevada, New York and London in search of a sacred scroll?but never makes it to Shanghai?is serviceable. The script contrives to convene every Victorian celebrity, from Jack the Ripper and Arthur Conan Doyle to Queen Victoria herself. The stars have an easy rapport, and share it graciously with Singapore TV-diva Fann Wong, who's quite appealing as Chon's sister. It's all disposable, second-rate fun. But at least director David Dobkin had the bright idea to let Chan, for the first time in a U.S. film, supervise the action...
...toward the repellent aspects of old age were different. And yet it is difficult to look at his numerous drawings of horribly, freakishly ugly old people--which would be assiduously copied by other artists (As comic emblems? As homages? Who knows?) and would make a final appearance during the Victorian age in the triumphantly hideous image of the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland--without sensing that Leonardo's peculiar and sadistic imagination is at a big remove from ours...