Victorian identities : social and cultural formations in nineteenth-century literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Robbins, Ruth, 1965-, Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York : Macmillan Press ; St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century. Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century. English literature > History, 1837-1900

Table of Contents:

Introduction : a moment, recalled / Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys
Rhonda Broughton's Not wisely but too well and the art of sensation / Helen Debenham
Labours of a modern storyteller : George Eliot and the cultural project of 'nationhood' in Daniel Deronda / Carolyn Lesjak
An anatomy of the British polity : Alton Locke and Christian manliness / David Alderson
Ante-anti-Semitism : George Eliot's Impressions of Theophrastus Such / Nancy Henry
Tennyson and the poetic forms of resistance / Claire M. Berardini
'Judas always writes the biography' : the many lives of Oscar Wilde / Ruth Robbins
Representing illegitimacy in Victorian culture / Jenny Bourne Taylor
The language of control in Victorian children's literature / Robin Melrose and Diana Gardner
Watch this space : Wilkie Collins and new strategies in Victorian publishing in the 1890s / Alexis Weedon
Telling the whole truth : Wilkie Collins and the lady detective / Jessica Maynard
Dickensian architextures or, the city and the ineffable / Julian Wolfreys
Inventing social identity : Sketches by Boz / Geoffrey Hemstedt
Afterword : diversity in Victorian studies and the opportunities of theory / William Baker.