Although history records that the British nineteenth century was obsessed with order,conventionality, and conformity, there were many Victorians from all walks of life, across lines of class, race, and gender, who resisted social mores and sometimes the laws themselves, in a variety of ways and to varying degrees. Some expressed dissension through music, art, literature, and social protest. Others were more subtle like manipulative wives who gained what they wanted while seemingly remaining docile and submissive. Some rebellion fermented into social and political movements. The revolt of still others was extremely executed by serial killers, criminals, and suicides. Contemporary readers can learn from these rebels and discern what values and ways that were uniquely Victorian should be retained and those that should be rejected after having observed their outcomes. To that end, this collection of essays offers a study for both novice and expert on Victorian rebels.
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Although history records that the British nineteenth century was obsessed with order, conventionality, and conformity, this study highlights myriad Victorians from all walks of life, across lines of class, race, and gender, who resisted social mores and sometimes the laws themselves, in a variety of ways and to varying degrees.
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FiguresContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What Is a Victorian Rebel? Brenda Ayres and Catherine LaytonPart I: A Rebel with a Pen1 Oscar Wilde’s Velvet Rebellion Nick Freeman2 George Egerton’s Marriage Questions: Henry Peter Higginson “of unsavory memory” and Egerton Clairmonte, Imperial Vagabond Gail Savage3 The Morphology of Rebellions: Critiquing Colonial Alterity, Subversive Subalternity, and Dangerous Desires During the Great India Revolt in On the Face of the WatersPreeshita Biswas and Purna Banerjee4 Works of Quiet Rebels: The Unconventional Brontë Sisters Catherine Golden5 Florence Marryat’s Rebel Spiritualism S. Brooke Cameron and Rachel Friars6 Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Rebellion against “Monkeyhood”: The Contest Between the “Determinate Counsel” and the Evolution Theories of Robert Chambers Lauren Nicole Cameron7 The Covert Rebels: The Curious Case of the Two Country-Born Anglo-Indians, Kipling and KimSujata (Susie) Chattopadhyay8 “Fierce as a Dragon”: New Zealand’s Rebellious Mary Taylor Emily Dotson9 Folly to Suppose It: Grace Aguilar’s Talmudic Apologia Lindsay KatzirPart II: A Rebel with a Cause10 Lord Alfred Douglas: “Two Loves” and Two Rebellions Aaron Eames11 Rebellious Crank or Cranky Rebel? Caroline Giacometti Prodgers and Married Women’s Property, 1860‒1890 Ginger Frost12 Rebel and Reactionary: The Case of Millicent Garrett Fawcett Julie Donovan13 From Helston to Benares: Katie Johns’ Journey to Theosophy Julie Courtney14 Free of Stays: Lady Florence Dixie and the Woman Question Catherine Layton15 Victorian Suicide: The Ultimate Act of Rebellion Brenda AyresPart III: Rebels in Movement(s)16 Bohemians and Bohemianism: Rebelling Against Mrs. Grundy Catherine Layton17 The Pre-Raphaelite Rebellion Anne Anderson18 Cranks and Crankdoms: Arts and Crafts Rebels and Rural Utopias Anne Anderson19 Topsy-Turvy Gilbert and Sullivan Scott Hayes20 Old Boy Uprisings: Rebellion and Reform at Victorian Public Schools Daniel Stuart21 Creating Work Opportunities for Women: The Tortoise of Polite Rebellion Catherine Layton22 Ishan Chandra Rai and the Pabna Peasant Uprising Marshall Needleman Armintor23 Enfranchising the Uitlanders: The Second Boer War and “Good Citizenship” in Chesterton and Baden-Powell Clay Cogswell24 Victorian Ghosts: Too Rebellious to Stay Dead Brenda Ayres25 Pickling the Past: Neo-Victorian Rebellion Against Victorian Morality Brenda AyresIndex
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9781032830629
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2025-02-19
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Routledge
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254 mm
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178 mm
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U, 05
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Brenda Ayres, now retired from full‑time residential teaching, currently teaches online in the graduate program for English Literature for Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. She has edited and authored chapters in The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism (2024), The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture (2023), Neo-Victorian Things (2022), Neo-Disneyism: Inclusivity in the Twenty-First Century of Disney’s Magic Kingdom (2022), The Theological Dickens (Routledge, 2022), Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media (2020), Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past (2020), Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture (Routledge, 2019), and Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-first Century (2019). Most recently, she has written and published Wollstonecraft and Religion (2024), and Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works (Routledge, 2024). Many of her other works are listed at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=brenda+ayres&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss_2.