The Editors of Journal of Victorian Culture and Routledge, publishers of Journal of Victorian Culture, are retracting the following article:

Frédéric Regard, ‘The Catholic Mule: E.B. Tylor's Chimeric Perception of Otherness’, Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 12, Issue 2, 2007, pp. 225–237.

We find this article to be largely a verbatim reproduction, without authorisation or appropriate acknowledgement, of:

Frédéric Regard, ‘Catholicism, Spiritual Progress, and Ethnology: E.B. Tylor's Secret War of Cultures’, REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, Volume 20, 2004, pp. 209–228.

The Editors of Journal of Victorian Culture accepted and published the article in good faith, with warranties regarding originality made by the author, which now appear to have been breached.

The Editors of Journal of Victorian Culture and Routledge, publishers of Journal of Victorian Culture, welcome this opportunity to restore the copyright of Gunter Narr Verlag, the publishers of REAL.