Victorian secrecy : economies of knowledge and concealment /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Pionke, Albert D., 1974-, Millstein, Denise Tischler
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Secrecy in literature. Secrecy > Great Britain > History > 19th century.

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.