Victorian secrecy : economies of knowledge and concealment /
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Language: | English |
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2010]
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Table of 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.