Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late Victorian Speculative Fiction (Among the Victorians and Modernists)

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Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface: An Imagined Crisis, a Failure of Imagination
	Notes
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience and the Hopes of Imaginative Horizons
	The Inventiveness, Resourcefulness, and Desperation of Victorian Patriarchy
	Speculative Hope, the Risk of Horizons, and the Promise of a Future People
	The Creative Resilience of Victorian Patriarchy
	Notes
1 Framing Threats, Sustaining White Male Supremacy: The Imaginative Work of Victorian Patriarchy
	The Threat of Men’s Fear, Delineating Courage, and the Promise of Order
	The Risks of Reform, Managing Women, and Accommodating a Democratizing Culture
	Racial Degeneration, the Promise of Patriarchal Masculinity, and Fictive Ethnicity
	Notes
2 Remaking England, Refashioning Hegemonic Masculinity, Sustaining Patriarchy
	Hegemonic Masculinity, Manliness, and Contingent Versatility
	After London, the Demise of Liberalism, and Felix’s Drive
	Aisi, Training for Hegemonic Masculinity, and the Failures of Perpetual Violence
	The Shepherds, the Return of Aurora, and the Promise of a New Hegemony
	News From Nowhere, “The Change,” and the Hegemonic Pleasures of Paternalism
	Nowhere’s Paternalistic Deployment of Women’s Bodies, Beauty, and Labor
	Rationalizing Marriage, Assuring Male Desires, and the Patriarchal Promise of Ellen
	Notes
3 Controlling Dangerous Women in The Coming Race and Flatland
	Control Societies and the Legacy of Ambitious (Dangerous) Victorian Women
	Normalization Through Happiness, Normalization Through Regularity
	Politics, Religion, and a Lack of Ambition in The Coming Race
	Sexual Desire, Marriage, and the Curious Representation of Zee
	The Female Figure, Marriage, and the De-Education of Women in Flatland
	Competition, Compensation, and the Colour Revolt
	Notes
4 Justifying Patriarchy: Performing Male Sovereignty in The Revolt of Man and Vice Versa
	Studying Patriarchy, the Alternative History Novel, and Desperate Performativity
	The Revolt of Man, Matriarchal Reforms, and Debilitated Men
	Homosocial Culture, Heteronormative Romance, and the Reliable Tactic of Blaming Women
	Women’s Commitment to the Future of Patriarchy
	Vice Versa and the Decay of Men’s Domestic Sovereignty
	The Desperate Machinations of Patriarchy
	Sympathy for Desperate Men and the Restoration of Patriarchal Sovereignty
	Notes
5 Patriarchy’s Ultimate Resilience: Authoritarian Masculinity in The Inner House and Ionia
	Exceptional Laws and Reforms, Leveraging Gender, and the Loss of Authority
	Scientific Dependency, Insecure Masculinity, and the Inhibitive Security of The Inner House
	Christine, the Pleasures of the Past, and the Foundation of Authoritative Masculinity
	Restoring a People, the Utility of Women’s Weakness, and Authoritarianism’s Versatility
	The Fervor for Reform in Ionia
	The Exceptional Violence, Legal Reforms, and Isolated Security of Ionia
	Authorizing Reforms, Exploiting the Threat of a Minority, and the Allure of a Future People
	Notes
6 Conclusion: Patriarchal Strategies of Division in Late Nineteenth-Century Feminist Utopias
	Strategic Division, the Past, and the Promise of Radical Feminist Critique
	Heteronormativity, Conventional Marriage, and the Lure of Eugenics
	Female Beauty and the Versatility of Patriarchal Violence
	Elitism, Legacies of the Past, and the Restraint of Radical Feminist Energy
	Notes
Afterword
	Notes
Bibliography
Index