Victorian Identities: Social and Cultural Formations in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Notes on the Contributors - Foreword; J.R.Kincaid - Introduction: A Moment Recalled; R.Robbins & J.Wolfreys - PART 1: EN-GENDERING DEBATES: MASCULINITY, FEMININITY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY - Rhoda Broughton's Not Wisely But Too Well and the Art of Sensation; H.Debenham - Labors of a Modern Storyteller: George Eliot and the Cultural Project of 'Nationhood'; C.Lesjak - An Anatomy of the British Polity: Alton Locke and Christian Manliness; D.Alderson - PART 2: AGAINST THE GRAIN - Ante-Anti-Semitism: George Eliot's Impressions of Theophrastus Such; N.Henry - Tennyson and the Poetic Forms of Resistance; C.M.Berardini - 'And Judas Always Writes the Biography': The Many Lives of Oscar Wilde; R.Robbins - PART 3: CULTURAL FORMATIONS AND MODES OF PRODUCTION - Representing Illegitimacy in Victorian Culture; J.B.Taylor - Models of the Adult World and the Language of Control in Victorian Children's Literature; R.Melrose & D.Gardner - Watch This Space: Wilkie Collins and New Strategies of Victorian Publishing in the 1890s; A.Weedon - PART 4: QUEST(ION)S FOR IDENTITIES - Telling the Whole Truth: Wilkie Collins and the Lady Detective; J.Maynard - Dickensian Architextures or, the City and the Ineffable; J.Wolfreys - Inventing Social Identity: Sketches by Boz; Geoffrey Hemstedt - Afterword: Diversity in Victorian Studies and the Opportunities of Theory; W.Baker - Bibliography - Index