Leila Silvana May

Secrecy and Disclosure in Victorian Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the works of writers such as Charlotte Bronte, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Arthur Conan Doyle reflect a distinctly Victorian obsession with the veiling and unveiling of information. This study offers convincing evidence that secrecy and duplicity, in contrast to the Victorian period's emphasis on honesty and earnestness, emerged in response to the social pressures of class, gender, monarchy, and empire, and were key factors in producing both the subjectivity and the sociality that we now recognize as Victorian.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317058410
• Artikelnr.: 49376794

Autorenporträt

Leila Silvana May is Professor of English at North Carolina State University, USA. She is also the author of Disorderly Sisters: Sibling Relations and Sororal Resistance in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.