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Varieties of Victorianism: The Uses of a Past |
Gary Day
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Varieties of Victorianism: The Uses of a Past
Of Elephants and Men: the Freak as Victorian and Contemporary Spectacle
Authors

Jonathan Skinner

ARI Id

1664171600219_558955

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Not Available Free

Pages

250-262

DOI

10.1007/978-1-349-26742-2_16

Chapter URL

https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-26742-2_16

Table of Contents of Book
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Front Matter
i-xii
Introduction: Past and Present — the Case of Samuel Smiles’ Self Help
Gary Day
1-24
Imperial Muscular Christianity: Thomas Hughes’s Biography of David Livingstone
Mary Angela Schwer
25-39
Victorian Modernity? Writing the Great Exhibition
Chris Hopkins
40-62
Black Silk and Red Paisley: the Toxic Woman in Wilkie Collins’s Armadale
Jessica Maynard
63-79
A Postmodern Victorian? Lewis Carroll and the Critique of Totalising Reason
Simon Malpas
80-97
Politics as Antagonism and Diversity: Mill and Lyotard
Peter R. Sedgwick
98-109
‘Victorian Values’ and Silas Marner
K. M. Newton
110-125
Racism in the Mid-Victorian Novel: Thackeray’s Philip
John Peck
126-141
The Reason for Drinking in Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge
Steven Earnshaw
142-160
‘To Whom Does He Address Himself?’: Reading Wordsworth in Browning’s Pauline
Carl Plasa
161-178
A Rose is a Rose is a Rover
Alistair Walker
179-190
Haven’t I Seen You Somewhere Before? Melodrama, Postmodernism and Victorian Culture
Nadine Holdsworth
191-205
‘A low born labourer like you’: Audience and Victorian Working-Class Melodrama
Darryl Wadsworth
206-219
‘Victorian Values’ and ‘Fast Young Ladies’: from Madeleine Smith to Ruth Rendell
Nick Rance
220-235
Vampires and Victorians: Count Dracula and the Return of the Repressive Hypothesis
Robert Mighall
236-249
Of Elephants and Men: the Freak as Victorian and Contemporary Spectacle
Jonathan Skinner
250-262
Back Matter
263-270
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