Varieties of Victorianism

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Introduction: Past and Present — the Case of Samuel Smiles’ Self Help
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   Chapter 2 Imperial Muscular Christianity: Thomas Hughes’s Biography of David Livingstone
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   Chapter 3 Victorian Modernity? Writing the Great Exhibition
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   Chapter 4 Black Silk and Red Paisley: the Toxic Woman in Wilkie Collins’s Armadale
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   Chapter 5 A Postmodern Victorian? Lewis Carroll and the Critique of Totalising Reason
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   Chapter 6 Politics as Antagonism and Diversity: Mill and Lyotard
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   Chapter 7 ‘Victorian Values’ and Silas Marner
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   Chapter 8 Racism in the Mid-Victorian Novel: Thackeray’s Philip
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    Chapter 9 The Reason for Drinking in Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge
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    Chapter 10 ‘To Whom Does He Address Himself?’: Reading Wordsworth in Browning’s Pauline
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    Chapter 11 A Rose is a Rose is a Rover
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    Chapter 12 Haven’t I Seen You Somewhere Before? Melodrama, Postmodernism and Victorian Culture
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    Chapter 13 ‘A low born labourer like you’: Audience and Victorian Working-Class Melodrama
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    Chapter 14 ‘Victorian Values’ and ‘Fast Young Ladies’: from Madeleine Smith to Ruth Rendell
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    Chapter 15 Vampires and Victorians: Count Dracula and the Return of the Repressive Hypothesis
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    Chapter 16 Of Elephants and Men: the Freak as Victorian and Contemporary Spectacle