The New Nineteenth Century

Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction

Barbara Leah Harman, Susan Meyer, Barbara Leah Harman, Susan Meyer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781136512520
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

This book includes essays on writers from the 1840s to the 1890s, well known writers such as Anne Bronte, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker, lesser known writers such as Geraldine Jewsbury, Charles Reade, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, Sarah Grand and Mary Ward. The contributors explore important thematic concerns: the relation between private and public realms; gender and social class; sexuality and the marketplace; and male and female cultural identity.

INDEX

Academy, 120, 130

Adair, Cecil, xv, xviii

Adam Bede (G. Eliot), 35

Adventures of Rob Roy, The (Grant), 247

Agnes Grey (A. Brontë), xxviii, 3–16 (Chapter)

Ainsworth, Harrison, xxi

Ainsworth's Magazine, 118

Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 42

All Sorts and Conditions of Men (Besant), xxxii-xxxiii, 135–57 (Chapter)

All The Year Round, xvii, 35, 43n.l, 118

Allen, Grant, 195

Amymone (Linton), 118

Anderson, Lindsay, xviii

Angria/Gondal sagas, xxiv

Annals of a Publishing House (Oliphant), 63

Antonina (Collins), 33, 34

Arabian Nights, The (Lane), 250

Armadale (W Collins), 33

“Art of Fiction, The” (Besant), xxxii, 137

Art of the Novel, The (Besant), 135

Ashford, Daisy, xv

Athenaeum, xxviii, 17, 26, 123, 159, 213

Aurora Leigh (Barrett Browning), 83

Austen, Jane, 67

Author, The (Besant), 135

Autobiography (Oliphant), 63, 65–66

Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland,

The (Linton), 117, 120

Avowals (Moore), 162

Awakening, The (Chopin), 67

Azeth the Egyptian (Linton), 118

Baker, Ernest, 66

Barber, Margaret. See Fairless, Michael

Barr, Amelia, xv

Remember the Alamo, xv

Basil (W Collins), 33

Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer, The (Chesney), 247

Beecher, Henry Ward, 50

“Beleagured City, A” (Oliphant), 63

Bell, Acton. See Bronte, Anne

Bentley's Miscellany, 118

Besant, Walter, xiii, xxiii,xxiv, xxxii-xxxiii, 135–57 (Chapter)

All Sorts and Conditions of Men, xxxii-xxxiii, 135–57 (Chapter)

“Art of Fiction, The, ” xxxii, 137

Art of the Novel...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• WELLESLEY STUDIES IN CRITICAL THEORY, LITERARY HISTORY AND CULTURE
• Title Page
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• FOREWORD: THE UNDERREAD
• INTRODUCTION
• Dedication
• WORDS ON “GREAT VULGAR SHEETS”: WRITING AND SOCIAL RESISTANCE IN ANNE BRONTE’S AGNES GREY (1847)
• AT HOME UPON A STAGE: DOMESTICITY AND GENIUS IN GERALDINE JEWSBURY’S THE HALF SISTERS (1848)
• REWRITING THE MALE PLOT IN WILKIE COLLINS’S NO NAME (1862): CAPTAIN WRAGGE ORDERS AN OMELETTE AND MRS. WRAGGE GOES INTO CUSTODY
• SILENT WOMAN, SPEAKING FICTION: CHARLES READE’S GRIFFITH GAUNT (1866) AT THE ADULTERY TRIAL OF HENRY WARD BEECHER
• MRS. OLIPHANT, MISS MARJORIBANKS (1866), AND THE VICTORIAN CANON
• THE VAMPIRE IN THE HOUSE: HYSTERIA, FEMALE SEXUALITY, AND FEMALE KNOWLEDGE IN LE FANU’S “CARMILLA” (1872)
• SOLICITORS SOLICITING: THE DANGEROUS CIRCULATIONS OF PROFESSIONALISM IN DRACULA (1897)
• ELIZA LYNN LINTON: THE REBEL OF THE FAMILY (1880) AND OTHER NOVELS
• PROBLEMS OF A “DEMOCRATIC TEXT”: WALTER BESANT’S IMPOSSIBLE STORY IN ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN (1882)
• NATURALISM IN GEORGE MOORE’S A MUMMER’S WIFE (1885)
• JOY BEHIND THE SCREEN: THE PROBLEM OF “PRESENTABILITY” IN GEORGE GISSING’S THE NETHER WORLD (1889)
• CURIOUS DUALITIES: THE HEAVENLY TWINS (1893) AND SARAH GRAND’S BELATED MODERNIST AESTHETICS
• MAPPING THE “TERRA INCOGNITA” OF WOMAN: GEORGE EGERTON’S KEYNOTES (1893) AND NEW WOMAN FICTION
• “TRANSITION TIME”: THE POLITICAL ROMANCES OF MRS. HUMPHRY WARD’S MARCELLA (1894) AND SIR GEORGE TRESSADY (1896)
• MOBILIZING CHIVALRY: RAPE IN FLORA ANNIE STEEL’S ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS (1896) AND OTHER BRITISH NOVELS ABOUT THE INDIAN UPRISING OF 1857
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX