ABSTRACT
This book includes essays on writers from the 1840s to the 1890s, well known writers such as Anne Bronte, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker, lesser known writers such as Geraldine Jewsbury, Charles Reade, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, Sarah Grand and Mary Ward. The contributors explore important thematic concerns: the relation between private and public realms; gender and social class; sexuality and the marketplace; and male and female cultural identity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Words on “Great Vulgar Sheets”
Writing and Social Resistance in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey (1847)
chapter |16 pages
At Home upon a Stage
Domesticity and Genius in Geraldine Jewsbury's the Half Sisters (1848)
chapter |12 pages
Rewriting the Male Plot in Wilkie Collins's no name (1862)
Captain Wragge Orders an Omelette and Mrs. Wragge goes into Custody
chapter |18 pages
Silent Woman, Speaking Fiction
Charles Reade's Griffith Gaunt (1866) At The Adultery Trial Of Henry Ward Beecher
chapter |20 pages
The Vampire in the House
Hysteria, Female Sexuality, and Female Knowledge in Le Fanu's “Carmilla” (1872)
chapter |20 pages
Solicitors Soliciting
The Dangerous Circulations of Professionalism in Dracula (1897)
chapter |24 pages
Problems of A “Democratic Text”
Walter Besant's Impossible Story in All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882)
chapter |14 pages
Joy Behind the Screen
The Problem of “Presentability” in George Gissing's the Nether World (1889)
chapter |10 pages
Curious Dualities
The Heavenly Twins (1893) and Sarah Grand's Belated Modernist Aesthetics
chapter |20 pages
Mapping the “Terra Incognita” of Woman
George Egerton's Keynotes (1893) and New Woman Fiction
chapter |22 pages
“Transition Time”
The Political Romances of Mrs. Humphry Ward's Marcella (1894) and Sir George Tressady (1896)
chapter |30 pages
Mobilizing Chivalry
Rape in Flora Annie Steel's on the Face of the Waters (1896) and Other British Novels About the Indian Uprising of 1857
