This handbook is an invaluable resource about Victorian literature, art, and culture which challenges its readers to ponder perplexing questions about how and why some scandals were perpetrated and propagated in the nineteenth century while others were not, and what the controversies reveal about the human condition.
This handbook is an invaluable resource about Victorian literature, art, and culture which challenges its readers to ponder perplexing questions about how and why some scandals were perpetrated and propagated in the nineteenth century while others were not, and what the controversies reveal about the human condition.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Brenda Ayres is retired from full-time residential teaching but currently teaches nineteenth-century English literature and professional writing online for several universities. Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick.
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List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Let's Talk Scandal Brenda Ayres Part 1: Scandalous Victoriana Chapter 1: The Afterlives of Victorian Scandals Lesley A. Hall Chapter 2: "Her only fear is convention": The Bohemian Girl in Victorian Art and Life Anne Anderson, Bohemians in Paris, Anglo-Bohemia Chapter 3: Reading Between the Lines: "Town Jottings" from the Savage Club in the Brighton Guardian, 1877 Catherine Layton Chapter 4: Scandalous Stupor: Chloroform and Robbery in Victorian Periodicals Ashlee Simon Chapter 5: Suicide as Scandal: Representations from Victorian Life and Art Catherine J. Golden Chapter 6: Scandalous Women Wearing Cloaks of Religion Brenda Ayres Chapter 7: The Darwin Scandal Tony Schwab Part 2: Scandalous Parties Chapter 8: Victorian Atheists: Cultivating Scandal as a Way of Life David Nash Chapter 9: Scandals in a Religious Sect: Agapemone Catherine Layton Chapter 10: "A Scandalous and Painful Case": Marriage, Libel, and the Church, 1873-1895 Ginger Frost Chapter 11: The Cause Célèbre of the Year, If Not the Decade: May, Dowager Duchess of Sutherland Catherine Layton Chapter 12: Regina v. Dunn: Lady Angela Burdett-Coutts and the Irish Annoyance Daniel Stuart Chapter 13: A Poor Gamble: The Disastrous Elopement of the "Pocket Venus" (Lady Florence Paget) Catherine Layton Chapter 14: A "Voice from the Grave": Lady Flora Hastings, Queen Victoria, and the Scandal of Pregnancy Suzanne Daly Chapter 15: Poisonous Words: Criminal Rhetoric and the Trials of Mary Ann Cotton and Florence Maybrick Katherine Anne Gilbert and Cheryl Blake Price Chapter 16: "I am a woman all alone": The Case of Mrs. Manning Catherine Layton Chapter 17: Lady Lincoln and the Lesser Life of the 1850 Lincoln Divorce Gail Savage Chapter 18: Women in the Military and Their Heraldry in the Press Claire Cookson-Hills Chapter 19: Virtue v. Heroism: Kate Dickinson's Case Against Colonel Valentine Baker Catherine Layton Chapter 20: Monstrous Martyrdom: The Trials of Oscar Wilde Tom Ue and Aaron Eames Part 3: Scandalous Reading and Delightfully Despicable Novels Chapter 21: Edith Cooper's Sin: Mapping the Wilful Bodies of Michael Field Sharon Bickle Chapter 22: "Let us adore spilled blood": Swinburne and the Scandal of Poems and Ballads Michael Craske Chapter 23: Edith J. Simcox and the Scandal of Queer Form Kellie Holzer Chapter 24: Scandalous Exogamy in Anthony Trollope's The Prime Minister Lauren Cameron Chapter 25: Ouida: Catherine Layton Chapter 2The Scandalous Deconstruction of Victorian Morals in Anna Lombard: What Made Victoria(ns) Cross? Purna Banerjee Chapter 27: Daddy's Little Angel in the House: The Managing Daughter and the Incest Taboo Emily Dotson Chapter 28: The Nineteenth-Century Sex Worker: Avoiding Surveillance, Stereotypes, and Scandal Hollie Geary-Jones Chapter 29: Homosexual Scandal and Late-Victorian Social Reform S. Brooke Cameron Chapter 30: Scandal and Degeneracy at the Fin de Siècle Sarah E. Maier Index
List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Let's Talk Scandal Brenda Ayres Part 1: Scandalous Victoriana Chapter 1: The Afterlives of Victorian Scandals Lesley A. Hall Chapter 2: "Her only fear is convention": The Bohemian Girl in Victorian Art and Life Anne Anderson, Bohemians in Paris, Anglo-Bohemia Chapter 3: Reading Between the Lines: "Town Jottings" from the Savage Club in the Brighton Guardian, 1877 Catherine Layton Chapter 4: Scandalous Stupor: Chloroform and Robbery in Victorian Periodicals Ashlee Simon Chapter 5: Suicide as Scandal: Representations from Victorian Life and Art Catherine J. Golden Chapter 6: Scandalous Women Wearing Cloaks of Religion Brenda Ayres Chapter 7: The Darwin Scandal Tony Schwab Part 2: Scandalous Parties Chapter 8: Victorian Atheists: Cultivating Scandal as a Way of Life David Nash Chapter 9: Scandals in a Religious Sect: Agapemone Catherine Layton Chapter 10: "A Scandalous and Painful Case": Marriage, Libel, and the Church, 1873-1895 Ginger Frost Chapter 11: The Cause Célèbre of the Year, If Not the Decade: May, Dowager Duchess of Sutherland Catherine Layton Chapter 12: Regina v. Dunn: Lady Angela Burdett-Coutts and the Irish Annoyance Daniel Stuart Chapter 13: A Poor Gamble: The Disastrous Elopement of the "Pocket Venus" (Lady Florence Paget) Catherine Layton Chapter 14: A "Voice from the Grave": Lady Flora Hastings, Queen Victoria, and the Scandal of Pregnancy Suzanne Daly Chapter 15: Poisonous Words: Criminal Rhetoric and the Trials of Mary Ann Cotton and Florence Maybrick Katherine Anne Gilbert and Cheryl Blake Price Chapter 16: "I am a woman all alone": The Case of Mrs. Manning Catherine Layton Chapter 17: Lady Lincoln and the Lesser Life of the 1850 Lincoln Divorce Gail Savage Chapter 18: Women in the Military and Their Heraldry in the Press Claire Cookson-Hills Chapter 19: Virtue v. Heroism: Kate Dickinson's Case Against Colonel Valentine Baker Catherine Layton Chapter 20: Monstrous Martyrdom: The Trials of Oscar Wilde Tom Ue and Aaron Eames Part 3: Scandalous Reading and Delightfully Despicable Novels Chapter 21: Edith Cooper's Sin: Mapping the Wilful Bodies of Michael Field Sharon Bickle Chapter 22: "Let us adore spilled blood": Swinburne and the Scandal of Poems and Ballads Michael Craske Chapter 23: Edith J. Simcox and the Scandal of Queer Form Kellie Holzer Chapter 24: Scandalous Exogamy in Anthony Trollope's The Prime Minister Lauren Cameron Chapter 25: Ouida: Catherine Layton Chapter 2The Scandalous Deconstruction of Victorian Morals in Anna Lombard: What Made Victoria(ns) Cross? Purna Banerjee Chapter 27: Daddy's Little Angel in the House: The Managing Daughter and the Incest Taboo Emily Dotson Chapter 28: The Nineteenth-Century Sex Worker: Avoiding Surveillance, Stereotypes, and Scandal Hollie Geary-Jones Chapter 29: Homosexual Scandal and Late-Victorian Social Reform S. Brooke Cameron Chapter 30: Scandal and Degeneracy at the Fin de Siècle Sarah E. Maier Index
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