Victorian secrecy : economies of knowledge and concealment / edited by Albert D. Pionke and Denise Tischler Millstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pionke, Albert D., 1974-

Millstein, Denise Tischler

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Secrecy in literature.

Secrecy--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Secrecy.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]

Contents:

Victorian secrecy: an introduction / Albert D. Pionke

Hidden agendas: the secret to early nineteenth-century British burial reform / Sarah Hoglund

Harriet Martineau's Victorian secret revealed: assassins, duels, and Corn Law repeal / Deborah Logan

Secrecy and reticence in John Henry Newman's Loss and gain / David J. Bradshaw

"What connexion can there be?": detection in Dickens's Bleak House / John McBratney

Concealing minds and the case of The woman in white / Maria K. Bachman

A Victorian picture puzzle: Richard Dadd's The fairy feller's masterstroke / Eleanor Fraser Stansbie

Detecting business fraud at home: white-collar crime and the sensational clergyman in Victorian domestic fiction / Tamara S. Wagner

George Eliot's Felix Holt, the radical and Byronic secrets / Denise Tischler Millstein

The perverse secrets of masculinity in Augusta Webster's dramatic poetry / Robert P. Fletcher

Victorian conjuring secrets / Michael Claxton

A secret censorship: the British Home Office v. town talk / Allison L. E. Wee

Secrets, silence, and the fractured self: Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Brooke McLaughlin Mitchell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9780754668886

0754668886

9780754695769

075469576X

OCLC:

439895857

Publisher Number:

99937841086