Victorian secrecy
Subtitle: economies of knowledge and concealment
By: edited by Albert D. Pionke and Denise Tischler Millstein.
Contributors: Pionke, Albert D., 1974-; Millstein, Denise Tischler.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754668886; 9780754695769
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Secrecy in literature; Secrecy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Victorian secrecy: an introduction / Albert D. Pionke; title: Hidden agendas: the secret to early nineteenth-century British burial reform / Sarah Hoglund; title: Harriet Martineau's Victorian secret revealed: assassins, duels, and Corn Law repeal / Deborah Logan; title: Secrecy and reticence in John Henry Newman's Loss and gain / David J. Bradshaw; title: "What connexion can there be?": detection in Dickens's Bleak House / John McBratney; title: Concealing minds and the case of The woman in white / Maria K. Bachman; title: A Victorian picture puzzle: Richard Dadd's The fairy feller's masterstroke / Eleanor Fraser Stansbie; title: Detecting business fraud at home: white-collar crime and the sensational clergyman in Victorian domestic fiction / Tamara S. Wagner; title: George Eliot's Felix Holt, the radical and Byronic secrets / Denise Tischler Millstein; title: The perverse secrets of masculinity in Augusta Webster's dramatic poetry / Robert P. Fletcher; title: Victorian conjuring secrets / Michael Claxton; title: A secret censorship: the British Home Office v. town talk / Allison L. E. Wee; title: Secrets, silence, and the fractured self: Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Brooke McLaughlin Mitchell.