Victorian Secrecy explores the myriad ways in which knowledge was both zealously accumulated and jealously guarded by individuals, institutions, and government entities in Victorian Britain. Offering a wide variety of approaches, this interdisciplinary collection provides a richly textured account of what was at stake individually, aesthetically, and culturally in the Victorians' clandestine activities.
Victorian Secrecy explores the myriad ways in which knowledge was both zealously accumulated and jealously guarded by individuals, institutions, and government entities in Victorian Britain. Offering a wide variety of approaches, this interdisciplinary collection provides a richly textured account of what was at stake individually, aesthetically, and culturally in the Victorians' clandestine activities.
Albert Pionke is associate professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA and Denise Tischler Millstein is assistant professor of nineteenth-century British literature at Stephen F. Austin State University, USA.
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Contents: Introduction: Victorian secrecy; an introduction Albert D. Pionke; Hidden agendas: the secret to early 19th-century British burial reform Sarah Hoglund; Harriet Martineau's 'only political plot': assassins duels and Corn-Law repeal Deborah A. Logan; Secrecy and reticence in John Henry Newman's Loss and Gain David J. Bradshaw; 'What connexion can there be?': detection in Dickens's Bleak House John McBratney; Concealing minds and the case of The Woman in White Maria K. Bachman; A Victorian picture puzzle: Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke Eleanor Fraser Stansbie; Detecting business fraud at home: white-collar crime and the sensational clergyman in Victorian domestic fiction Tamara S. Wagner; George Eliot's Felix Holt The Radical and Byronic secrets Denise Tischler Millstein; The perverse secrets of masculinity in Augusta Webster's dramatic poetry Robert P. Fletcher; Victorian conjuring secrets Michael Claxton; A secret censorship: the British Home Office v. Town Talk Allison L.E. Wee; Secrets silence and the fractured self: Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles Brooke McLaughlin Mitchell; Bibliography; Index.
Contents: Introduction: Victorian secrecy; an introduction Albert D. Pionke; Hidden agendas: the secret to early 19th-century British burial reform Sarah Hoglund; Harriet Martineau's 'only political plot': assassins duels and Corn-Law repeal Deborah A. Logan; Secrecy and reticence in John Henry Newman's Loss and Gain David J. Bradshaw; 'What connexion can there be?': detection in Dickens's Bleak House John McBratney; Concealing minds and the case of The Woman in White Maria K. Bachman; A Victorian picture puzzle: Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke Eleanor Fraser Stansbie; Detecting business fraud at home: white-collar crime and the sensational clergyman in Victorian domestic fiction Tamara S. Wagner; George Eliot's Felix Holt The Radical and Byronic secrets Denise Tischler Millstein; The perverse secrets of masculinity in Augusta Webster's dramatic poetry Robert P. Fletcher; Victorian conjuring secrets Michael Claxton; A secret censorship: the British Home Office v. Town Talk Allison L.E. Wee; Secrets silence and the fractured self: Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles Brooke McLaughlin Mitchell; Bibliography; Index.
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