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Victorian Literary Cultures : Studies in Textual Subversion.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (220 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611476651
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Victorian Literary CulturesDDC classification:
  • 820.9008
LOC classification:
  • PR461.V53 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Subversive Literary Cultures -- Part I: Subversive Women -- Chapter One: The Mysterious Identity of Helen Dickens, Victorian Novelist -- Chapter Two: Moonrise and the Ascent of Eve, the Woman Titan: Charlotte Brontë's Epiphanies of the Fourfold Elemental Feminine -- Chapter Three: Condoning Adultery: Problems of Marriage and Divorce in George Eliot's Life and Writing -- Part II: Subversive Ideologies -- Chapter Four: Unraveling Orientalism: Dawe's "Yellow and White" -- Chapter Five: "A familiar kinde of chastisement": Fasting in the Nineteenth-Century -- Chapter Six: The Effect of Emerging New Media on Book Publishing: Lessons from the Origins of Cross-Media Storytelling in the Early Twentieth Century for Contemporary Transmedia Researchers -- Chapter Seven: "And this also has been one of the dark places of the earth": Reading Levinasian Ethics and Literary Impressionism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- Part III: Subversive Genres -- Chapter Eight: "Count me in": Comedy in Dracula -- Chapter Nine: "The seasoned spirit of the cunning reader": The Textual Subversions of The Turn of the Screw -- Chapter Ten: "Fallen" Clergymen: The Wages of Sin in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, and Henry Arthur Jones's Michael and His Lost Angel -- Chapter Eleven: Sherlock Holmes: The Criminal in the Detective -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
Summary: Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion is an anthology featuring leading critical voices, including such figures as Nancy Henry, Julian Wolfreys, Ira Nadel, Joseph Wiesenfarth, and William Baker, among others, as they address ideas of subversion in nineteenth-century literature.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Subversive Literary Cultures -- Part I: Subversive Women -- Chapter One: The Mysterious Identity of Helen Dickens, Victorian Novelist -- Chapter Two: Moonrise and the Ascent of Eve, the Woman Titan: Charlotte Brontë's Epiphanies of the Fourfold Elemental Feminine -- Chapter Three: Condoning Adultery: Problems of Marriage and Divorce in George Eliot's Life and Writing -- Part II: Subversive Ideologies -- Chapter Four: Unraveling Orientalism: Dawe's "Yellow and White" -- Chapter Five: "A familiar kinde of chastisement": Fasting in the Nineteenth-Century -- Chapter Six: The Effect of Emerging New Media on Book Publishing: Lessons from the Origins of Cross-Media Storytelling in the Early Twentieth Century for Contemporary Transmedia Researchers -- Chapter Seven: "And this also has been one of the dark places of the earth": Reading Levinasian Ethics and Literary Impressionism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- Part III: Subversive Genres -- Chapter Eight: "Count me in": Comedy in Dracula -- Chapter Nine: "The seasoned spirit of the cunning reader": The Textual Subversions of The Turn of the Screw -- Chapter Ten: "Fallen" Clergymen: The Wages of Sin in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, and Henry Arthur Jones's Michael and His Lost Angel -- Chapter Eleven: Sherlock Holmes: The Criminal in the Detective -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion is an anthology featuring leading critical voices, including such figures as Nancy Henry, Julian Wolfreys, Ira Nadel, Joseph Wiesenfarth, and William Baker, among others, as they address ideas of subversion in nineteenth-century literature.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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