Victorian Identities: Social and Cultural Formations in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: A Moment, Recalled....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Rhoda Broughton’s Not Wisely But Too Well and the Art of Sensation....Pages 9-24
Labours of a Modern Storyteller: George Eliot and the Cultural Project of ‘Nationhood’ in Daniel Deronda....Pages 25-42
An Anatomy of the British Polity: Alton Locke and Christian Manliness....Pages 43-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Ante-Anti-Semitism: George Eliot’s Impressions of Theophrastus Such....Pages 65-80
Tennyson and the Poetic Forms of Resistance....Pages 81-96
‘Judas always writes the biography’: The Many Lives of Oscar Wilde....Pages 97-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Representing Illegitimacy in Victorian Culture....Pages 119-142
The Language of Control in Victorian Children’s Literature....Pages 143-162
Watch This Space: Wilkie Collins and New Strategies in Victorian Publishing in the 1890s....Pages 163-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Telling the Whole Truth: Wilkie Collins and the Lady Detective....Pages 187-198
Dickensian Architextures or, the City and the Ineffable....Pages 199-214
Inventing Social Identity: Sketches by Boz....Pages 215-229
Afterword: Diversity in Victorian Studies and the Opportunities of Theory....Pages 230-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-256