Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond

1. Introduction: The Family Metaphor - Barbara Leonardi.- 2. Motherhood, Mother Country, and Migrant Maternity - Barbara Leonardi.- 3. "No crime to kill a bastard-child": Stereotypes of Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales - Daniel J. R. Grey.- 4. The New Woman in her Confinement: Fin de siècle Constructions of Maternity and Motherhood - Kirsty Bunting.- 5. "Another Class": The Lady's Maid in Short Stories 1920-1950 - Anna Fenge.- 6. The Destabilisation of Gender and National Boundaries in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair : A Long Nineteenth Century Perspective - Carla Sassi.- 7. "Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small": Katherine Mansfield as a Threshold Person - Angela Smith.- 8. Transferential Rhetoric and Beyond: The West Indian Presence in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda and Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray - James Morris.- 9. Bandsmen, Brass Band Uniforms and Nineteenth-Century Militarism: Southern Pennine Bandsmen and Stereotypes of Military Masculinity, c. 1840-1914 - Stephen Etheridge.- 10. Comparative Decadence? Male Queerness in Late Nineteenth- and Late Twentieth-Century Fiction - Rainier Emig.- 11. Cherchez La Femme: Looking for Lesbian Femininities in Literature, 1850-1928 - Sarah Parker.- 12. "Utterly Subversive of Female Delicacy": Victorian Sensibilities and the Unspeakable Allegations in Countess Russell's Divorce Suit - Michael Bedo.- 13. Killing the "Angel in the House": Violence and Victim-Blaming in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Claire O'Callaghan.