Queer Victorian families : curious relations in literature /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Dau, Duc (Editor), Preston, Shale, 1965- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Series:	Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 15.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Families in literature. 1800 - 1899 Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Queer Victorian Families: An Introduction; PART I: Queervolutions; 1 The "Queer-Looking Party" Challenge to Family in Alice; 2 Esther Summerson's Estate: The Queer, Quasi-Monarchical Line of Beauty, Family, and Inheritance in Bleak House; 3 Michael Field's Dramatically Queer Family Dynamics; 4 William Sharp's Neo-Paganism: Queer Identity and the National Family; PART II: Queer Actually
5 A "Strange Family Story": Count Fosco, His Animal Children, and the "Safe" Patriarch in Wilkie Collins's: The Woman in White6 "The right and natural law of things": Disability and the Form of the Family in the Fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge; 7 Two Girls in Love: Romantic Friendship and the Queer Family in Elizabeth Anna Hart's: The Runaway; PART III: Queer Connections; 8 Reading on the Contrary: Cousin Marriage, Mansfield Park, and Wuthering Heights; 9 The Queer, Statistical Kinship of Tennyson and Melville
10 The Victorian Family in Queer Time: Secrets, Sisters, and Lovers in The Woman in White and FingersmithContributors; Index