Engendering history for the middle class : sex and political economy in the Edinburgh Review / Judith Newton -- From trope to code : the novel and the rhetoric of gender in nineteenth-century critical discourse / Ina Ferris -- Demonic mothers : ideologies of bourgeois motherhood in the mid-Victorian era / Sally Shuttleworth -- Water rights and the "crossing o' breeds" : chiastic exchange in The Mill on the Floss / Jules Law -- Tess, tourism, and the spectacle of the woman / Jeff Nunokawa -- "To tell the truth of sex" : confession and abjection in late Victorian writing / Marion Shaw -- Reading the Gothic revival : "history" and Hints on Household Taste / Christina Crosby -- Excluding women : the cult of the male genius in Victorian painting / Susan P. Casteras -- Of maenads, mothers, and feminized males : Victorian readings of the French Revolution / Linda M. Shires -- The "female paternalist" as historian : Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow / Christine L. Krueger -- Afterword : ideology and the subject as agent / Linda M. Shires
