Denise Tischler Millstein

Victorian Secrecy (eBook, PDF)

Economies of Knowledge and Concealment
Redaktion: Pionke, Albert D.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Victorian Secrecy explores the myriad ways in which knowledge was both zealously accumulated and jealously guarded by individuals, institutions, and government entities in Victorian Britain. Offering a wide variety of approaches, this interdisciplinary collection provides a richly textured account of what was at stake individually, aesthetically, and culturally in the Victorians' clandestine activities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317002147
• Artikelnr.: 44815753

Autorenporträt

Albert Pionke is associate professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA and Denise Tischler Millstein is assistant professor of nineteenth-century British literature at Stephen F. Austin State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Victorian secrecy; an introduction
Albert D. Pionke; Hidden agendas: the secret to early 19th-century British burial reform
Sarah Hoglund; Harriet Martineau's 'only political plot': assassins
duels
and Corn-Law repeal
Deborah A. Logan; Secrecy and reticence in John Henry Newman's Loss and Gain
David J. Bradshaw; 'What connexion can there be?': detection in Dickens's Bleak House
John McBratney; Concealing minds and the case of The Woman in White
Maria K. Bachman; A Victorian picture puzzle: Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke
Eleanor Fraser Stansbie; Detecting business fraud at home: white-collar crime and the sensational clergyman in Victorian domestic fiction
Tamara S. Wagner; George Eliot's Felix Holt
The Radical and Byronic secrets
Denise Tischler Millstein; The perverse secrets of masculinity in Augusta Webster's dramatic poetry
Robert P. Fletcher; Victorian conjuring secrets
Michael Claxton; A secret censorship: the British Home Office v. Town Talk
Allison L.E. Wee; Secrets
silence
and the fractured self: Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Brooke McLaughlin Mitchell; Bibliography; Index.