Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature

by Birch, Dinah; Llewellyn, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780230221550
• ISBN10: 0230221556
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This new edited collection featuring a mix of well-established and younger scholars which focuses on Victorian cultural conflict and difference. Contributions range from detailed readings of key literary figures (Browning, Collins, Eliot, Dickens) to explorations of cross-period themes (the philosophical roots of conflict; dreams and psychology; consumption; imperialism and race) or specific literary movements or moments (Chartism; journalism; New Woman novels), and address diverse areas of intellectual inquiry about what mattered most to the Victorians.

Author Biography

DINAH BIRCH is Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University, UK. Her publications include Ruskin's Myths (1988), Ruskin on Turner (1990), an annotated selection from Ruskin's Fors Clavigera (2000), and edited collections of essays Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern (1999) and Ruskin and Gender (2002, co-edited with Francis O'Gorman). Her John Ruskin: Selected Writings (2004) has appeared in the Oxford World's Classics series, and she has edited novels by Anthony Trollope and George Eliot. Her book Our Victorian Education appeared in 2007. She is the General Editor of the forthcoming new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
 
MARK LLEWELLYN is a Lecturer in the School of English at Liverpool University, UK. Mark has published a number of book chapters and articles and has co-edited four special journal issues (Women; Women’s Writing; Critical Survey; Feminist Review) and an essay collection (Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women’s Writing, 2007). His 5-volume co-edited critical edition of The Collected Short Stories of George Moore was published in 2007. Mark is Director of Liverpool’s Centre for Victorian Studies and Membership Secretary of the British Association for Victorian Studies. He is currently writing Victorian Writers and Writing: A Blackwell Encyclopaedia (publication date 2011).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Notes on the Contributors	p. viii
Introduction: On Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature	p. 1
Argument as Conflict: Then and Now	p. 14
Ever a Fighter: Browning's Struggle with Conflict	p. 33
Conflict and Imperial Communication: Narrating the First Afghan War	p. 52
Off-White Indians	p. 66
The Interpretation of Daydreams: Reverie as Site of Conflict in Early Victorian Psychology	p. 80
'If I am not Grotesque I am Nothing': Aubrey Beardsley and Disabled Identities in Conflict	p. 93
Negotiating the Gentle-Man: Male Nursing and Class Conflict in the 'High' Victorian Period	p. 109
'Resolved in Defiance of Fool and of Knave'?: Chartism, Children and Conflict	p. 126
'Conversing with Monstrosities': Evolutionary Theory and Contemporary Responses to the Novels of Wilkie Collins	p. 141
Dickens and the Heritage Industry; or, Culture and the Commodity	p. 157
The King and Who? Dance, Difference, and Identity in Anna Leonowens and The King and I	p. 171
'The Utmost Intricacies of the Soul's Pathways': the Significance of Syntax in George Eliot's Felix Holt, The Radical	p. 186
Culture Wars? Arnold's Essays in Criticism and the Rise of Journalism 1865-1895	p. 201
Shrieking Sisters and Bawling Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in Sarah Grand and Mary Cholmondeley	p. 213
After Eternal Punishment: 'Fin de Siècle' as Literary Eschatology	p. 228
Selected Bibliography	p. 240
Index	p. 251
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