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Reviewed by: Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imagination by Sebastian Lecourt Anna Neill (bio) Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imagination, by Sebastian Lecourt; pp. vii + 229. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, £53.00, $74.00. Sebastian Lecourt’s Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imagination—a study of nineteenth-century liberalism, race, and religion—could not be timelier. In an era of resurgent populism, authoritarianism, and intolerance, each of which is oddly bound to the neoliberal assault on social equality, the very notion of a cultivated liberal self can seem naïve or antiquarian. Yet Lecourt’s rich account of the intersections in Victorian intellectual culture between individualist self-cultivation and the unchosen heritages that are otherwise anathema to it seems hopeful just now. It suggests that we might profitably look back to a nineteenth-century liberalism that is flexible, robust, and inclusive enough to help shore up democracy. Lecourt does not actually say any of this himself. Instead, the book ends modestly, perhaps too modestly, with “the key takeaway . . . [that] paradox is endemic to the attempt to make aesthetics into a working blueprint for politics” (200). Lecourt describes how four major Victorian intellectuals—Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Andrew Lang—cultivate “many-sided individuality”: the opening up of a universal, abstract, free decision-making subject to multiple forms of ethnic and religious inheritance (2). In each case, such cultivation occurs as an aesthetic free play of diverse histories, and the political energy of these hybrid identities wanes with a recognition that contradictions inherent in liberalism will inevitably hamstring it. The book’s account of the secularizing of cultural affliations and passions into a many-sidedness that recognizes multiple inheritances promises new forms of political life where politics seems most fractured. Yet this discovery ultimately dissolves into melancholy concurrence with Charles Taylor that such pluralism cannot be realized fully. [End Page 682] This somber note confirms the findings of each chapter. Arnold’s use of racial and later philological science to assert a secular, multifaceted, disinterested critical personality turns upon itself. (This is perhaps unsurprising, since an attempt to reclaim evolutionary polygenism—the theory of multiple human origins—for the liberal personality is surely doomed from the start, but Lecourt’s argument is that culture is finally unable to absorb religion, whose universalizing force it depends on.) Eliot, he then shows, reconfigures sympathy away from Adam Smith’s impartial spectator to a mode in which selves develop by internalizing multiple perspectives and absorbing the energies of multiple forms of inheritance. Yet because for Eliot race and religion can only help to cultivate a self if they are absorbed through the acts of reading and interpreting scripture, many-sidedness risks being pushed back into Protestant contemplative interiority. Pater ends up having to embrace a version of the asceticism that the aesthetic free play of long-surviving cultural forms he identifies in second-century Christianity wants to reject. For Lang, folklore brings the savage survivals of an ancient past forward into a new literary heterogeneity that respects deep cultural inheritances. But he ends up fetishizing and essentializing primitive belief, thereby setting it at odds with the secularity of “generous eclecticism” (199). In this sequence of deconstructive turns, Cultivating Belief sounds an even bleaker note than that of Amanda Anderson’s Bleak Liberalism (2016): for Anderson, liberal aesthetics productively attends to thwarted political aspirations and the impossibility of universal self- actualization; for Lecourt, liberal eclecticism is stymied by the very forms that give it voice. Cultivating Belief is not, however, really trying to reimagine political subjectivity or liberal multiculturalism for the present day. Its central concern is to counter a longstanding historical narrative in which the rise of Western secularism is coterminous with religious decline (helped along in the later nineteenth century by evolutionary theory). The book is enormously persuasive in this regard. Lecourt shows the ways in which religion becomes an expression of ethnicity reflected in liberal aesthetics. And he convincingly posits that through many-sidedness, Arnold, Eliot, Pater, and Lang all theorized an alternative to Protestant secularism with its emphasis on choice and private, interior...

This short essay considers Kathy Psomiades’s recent book, Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology and the Novel, from a feminist perspective.

Review: <i>Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity</i>, by Kathy Alexis Psomiades

Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity by Kathy Alexis (review)

Reviewed by: A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology: Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past Robert D. Aguirre (bio) A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology: Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past, by Margarita Díaz-Andreu; pp. x + 486. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, £70.00, $175.00. In the massive state edifices that testify to our collective fascination with the past—the British Museum, the Louvre, the Museo Nacional in Mexico City—one easily forgets the archaeologists and collectors who stand behind the objects on display. Museums carefully cultivate an illusion of timelessness, privileging the objective world of artifacts under glass over the subjective, and inevitably messy, world of humans engaged in the field. Studying the history of archaeologists and the cultural forces that produced them is difficult. The history of the discipline has too often been written for its own practitioners, resulting in accounts of heroic discoveries or dry-as-dust surveys with no overarching argument save a positivist march toward scientific rigor. Margarita Díaz-Andreu soars above these tired forms with massive erudition and global reach. Having read apparently everything on her subject in a variety of languages, she has produced a critical history of the discipline's nineteenth-century developments that will serve for years to come as the definitive reference in the field. Its command brings to mind other indispensable works that Victorianists keep within arm's reach, such as George Stocking's Victorian Anthropology (1987), John Sutherland's Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction (1988), or, from an earlier day, Richard Altick's The English Common Reader (1957) or Walter Houghton's The Victorian Frame of Mind (1957). Its impressive breadth complements the growing number of specialized treatments by scholars such as Shawn Malley, Virginia Zimmerman, and Andrew Stauffer that have brought archaeology into lively conversation with literary and cultural studies. Díaz-Andreu sets her account of archaeology and the "realms of memory" against parallel histories of nationalism and imperialism (3), drawing varied and incisive connections to natural history, literary and political studies, colonialism and postcolonialism. Drawing inventively on Benedict Anderson, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu, among others, she seeks to offer a "more critical and deconstructive history of archaeology" than has heretofore been available (4). This is a tall order and risks the perils of the sweeping survey, but Díaz-Andreu's focus on nationalism keeps the wide-ranging material in clear focus. The study unfolds in four coherent parts. In part I, she explores the role of antiquities in the early modern era, concentrating on why certain kinds of objects—monumental antiquities from Egypt, Greece, and Rome—became especially prized as symbolic capital during an age that witnessed the emergence of the modern state and the corresponding necessity of rooting identities in a collectively shared past. She then turns to the eighteenth century and explains how the rise of nationalism as [End Page 172] an ideology began to intersect with antiquarian pursuits, and provides a detailed account of developments in France, Greece, and the newly independent republics of Spanish America, while also narrating the birth of the national museum. In part II she considers the much disputed terrain of informal imperialism, exploring comparative histories of archaeology within the context of indirect rule in the Ottoman Empire, Latin America, China, and Japan. Díaz-Andreu also explains how archaeology was funded, whether directly by the state, as on the Continent, or largely by private entities, as in Britain and the United States. In part III Díaz-Andreu considers direct colonial governance, examining South Asia, French North Africa, and the rise of what she calls the "archaeology of the primitive" (278), which dovetailed neatly with emergent anthropological discourses of racial difference and white supremacy that justified imperialism's civilizing mission. In part IV, the author turns her attention to national archaeology in Europe itself, discussing the search for the national past during the Romantic era; the role of nation, race, and language in the period of liberal revolutions (from 1820 to 1860); and finally the impact of evolution and positivism (from 1860 to 1900). Within this book's international, comparativist frame, archaeology is treated as both a product and...

The history of science came early to Oxford. Its first champion was Robert T. Gunther, the son of a keeper of zoology at the British Museum and a graduate of Magdalen College who took a first there in the School of Natural Science in 1892, specializing in zoology ([figure 1][1]). As tutor in natural

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Primitive Marriage analyzes the conjectural history installed in Victorian anthropology and taken up by novelists, in which sex drives a civilizational progress from domination and force to liberal relations of exchange, contract, and consent. Kathy Psomiades’s act of critical reflection doubles fin-de-siècle anthropology’s reflexive turn upon its own investments in symbol and representation. Her argument models an ethically and politically responsible criticism that restores the difference of past cultural formations, viewed as unfinished, potential, and manifold in their bearing on our present.

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In 2019, it is no longer possible to say, as Christopher Herbert did in 1998, that Victorian anthropology has been excluded from the field of reputable inquiry in Victorian studies. Over the past 20 years, literary scholars have begun reexamining both the anthropologists and the relationships between anthropological and literary writing. This chapter provides a brief history of scholarship on anthropology and literature in the Victorian period before 1998 and then details the scholarly conversations about marriage, myth, secularism, and science that inform criticism on anthropology and literature written over the past two decades.

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