Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture
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2022
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781032259963
Publisert
2022-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
760 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
606
Om bidragsyterne
Brenda Ayres is retired from full-time residential teaching but currently teaches nineteenth-century English literature and professional writing online for several universities.
Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick.
The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture exposes, explores, and examines what Victorians once considered flagrant breaches of decorum. Infringements that were fantasized through artforms or were actually committed exceeded entertaining parlor gossip; once in print they were condemned as socially contaminative but were also consumed as delightfully sensational. Written by scholars in diverse disciplines, this volume:Demonstrates that spreading scandals seemed to have been one of the most entertaining sources of activities but were also normative efforts made by the Victorians to ensure conformity of decorum.Provides a broad spectrum of infractions that were considered scandalous to the Victorians.Identifies Victorian transgressions that made the news and that may still shock modern readers.Covers a gamut of moral infractions and transgressions either practiced, rumored, or fantasized in art forms.This handbook is an invaluable resource about Victorian literature, art, and culture which challenges its readers to ponder perplexing questions about how and why some scandals were perpetrated and propagated in the nineteenth century while others were not, and what the controversies reveal about the human condition that persists beyond Victoria’s reign of propriety.
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This handbook is an invaluable resource about Victorian literature, art, and culture which challenges its readers to ponder perplexing questions about how and why some scandals were perpetrated and propagated in the nineteenth century while others were not, and what the controversies reveal about the human condition.
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List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Let’s Talk ScandalBrenda AyresPart 1: Scandalous Victoriana Chapter 1: The Afterlives of Victorian ScandalsLesley A. HallChapter 2: “Her only fear is convention”:The Bohemian Girl in Victorian Art and LifeAnne Anderson, Bohemians in Paris, Anglo-BohemiaChapter 3: Reading Between the Lines:“Town Jottings” from the Savage Club in the Brighton Guardian, 1877Catherine LaytonChapter 4: Scandalous Stupor:Chloroform and Robbery in Victorian PeriodicalsAshlee SimonChapter 5: Suicide as Scandal:Representations from Victorian Life and ArtCatherine J. Golden Chapter 6: Scandalous Women Wearing Cloaks of ReligionBrenda AyresChapter 7: The Darwin ScandalTony SchwabPart 2: Scandalous PartiesChapter 8: Victorian Atheists: Cultivating Scandal as a Way of LifeDavid NashChapter 9: Scandals in a Religious Sect: AgapemoneCatherine LaytonChapter 10: “A Scandalous and Painful Case”: Marriage, Libel, and the Church, 1873–1895Ginger FrostChapter 11: The Cause Célèbre of the Year, If Not the Decade:May, Dowager Duchess of SutherlandCatherine LaytonChapter 12: Regina v. Dunn:Lady Angela Burdett-Coutts and the Irish AnnoyanceDaniel StuartChapter 13: A Poor Gamble:The Disastrous Elopement of the “Pocket Venus” (Lady Florence Paget)Catherine LaytonChapter 14: A “Voice from the Grave”:Lady Flora Hastings, Queen Victoria, and the Scandal of PregnancySuzanne DalyChapter 15: Poisonous Words:Criminal Rhetoric and the Trials of Mary Ann Cotton and Florence MaybrickKatherine Anne Gilbert and Cheryl Blake PriceChapter 16: “I am a woman all alone”: The Case of Mrs. ManningCatherine LaytonChapter 17: Lady Lincoln and the Lesser Life of the 1850 Lincoln DivorceGail SavageChapter 18: Women in the Military and Their Heraldry in the PressClaire Cookson-HillsChapter 19: Virtue v. Heroism:Kate Dickinson’s Case Against Colonel Valentine BakerCatherine LaytonChapter 20: Monstrous Martyrdom:The Trials of Oscar WildeTom Ue and Aaron EamesPart 3: Scandalous Reading and Delightfully Despicable NovelsChapter 21: Edith Cooper’s Sin:Mapping the Wilful Bodies of Michael FieldSharon BickleChapter 22: “Let us adore spilled blood”:Swinburne and the Scandal of Poems and Ballads Michael CraskeChapter 23: Edith J. Simcox and the Scandal of Queer FormKellie HolzerChapter 24: Scandalous Exogamy in Anthony Trollope’s The Prime MinisterLauren CameronChapter 25: Ouida: Her Scandalous Life and Scandalous NovelsCatherine LaytonChapter 26: The Scandalous Deconstruction of Victorian Morals in Anna Lombard:What Made Victoria(ns) Cross?Purna BanerjeeChapter 27: Daddy’s Little Angel in the House:The Managing Daughter and the Incest TabooEmily DotsonChapter 28: The Nineteenth-Century Sex Worker: Avoiding Surveillance, Stereotypes, and Scandal Hollie Geary-JonesChapter 29: Sexy Dirt: Homosexual Scandal and Late-Victorian Social ReformS. Brooke CameronChapter 30: A Confusion of Discourses: Scandal and Degeneracy at the Fin de SiècleSarah E. Maier Index
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781032259963
Publisert
2022-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
760 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
606
Om bidragsyterne
Brenda Ayres is retired from full-time residential teaching but currently teaches nineteenth-century English literature and professional writing online for several universities.
Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick.