| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 202 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Subversive Literary Cultures; Part I: Subversive Women; Chapter One: The Mysterious Identity of Helen Dickens, Victorian Novelist; Chapter Two: Moonrise and the Ascent of Eve, the Woman Titan: Charlotte Brontë's Epiphanies of the Fourfold Elemental Feminine; Chapter Three: Condoning Adultery: Problems of Marriage and Divorce in George Eliot's Life and Writing; Part II: Subversive Ideologies; Chapter Four: Unraveling Orientalism: Dawe's "Yellow and White"; Chapter Five: "A familiar kinde of chastisement": Fasting in the Nineteenth-Century |
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Chapter Six: The Effect of Emerging New Media on Book Publishing: Lessons from the Origins of Cross-Media Storytelling in the Early Twentieth Century for Contemporary Transmedia ResearchersChapter Seven: "And this also has been one of the dark places of the earth": Reading Levinasian Ethics and Literary Impressionism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Part III: Subversive Genres; Chapter Eight: "Count me in": Comedy in Dracula; Chapter Nine: "The seasoned spirit of the cunning reader": The Textual Subversions of The Turn of the Screw |
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Chapter Ten: "Fallen" Clergymen: The Wages of Sin in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, and Henry Arthur Jones's Michael and His Lost AngelChapter Eleven: Sherlock Holmes: The Criminal in the Detective; Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
| Summary |
Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion is an anthology featuring leading critical voices, including such figures as Nancy Henry, Julian Wolfreys, Ira Nadel, Joseph Wiesenfarth, and William Baker, among others, as they address ideas of subversion in nineteenth-century literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature and society
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English literature
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English literature -- Influence
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Womack, Kenneth, editor
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Decker, James M., 1967- editor.
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| LC no. |
2021675513 |
| ISBN |
9781611476651 |
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1611476658 |
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