Chase / Levenson The Spectacle of Intimacy

A Public Life for the Victorian Family
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-3112-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Literature in History

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Chase, Karen

Levenson, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

INTRODUCTION The Trouble with Families 3

PART ONE: The Political Theater of Domesticity

CHAPTER ONE The Trials of Caroline Norton: Poetry, Publicity, and the Prime Minister 21

CHAPTER TWO: The Young Queen and the Parliamentary Bedchamber: "I never saw a man so frightened" 46

PART Two: Beneath the Banner of Home t

CHAPTER THREE Sarah Stickney Ellis: The Ardent Woman and the Abject Wife 65

CHAPTER FOUR Tom's Pinch: The Sexual Serpent beside the Dickensian Fireside 86

PART THREE: Was That an Angel in the House?

CHAPTER FIVE Love after Death: The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill 105

CHAPTER SIX The Transvestite, the Bloomer, and the Nightingale 121

PART FOUR: The Architecture of Comfort and Ruin

CHAPTER SEVEN On the Parapets of Privacy: Walls of Wealth and Dispossession 143

CHAPTER EIGHT Robert Kerr: The Gentleman's House and the One-Room Solution 156

PART FIVE: The Sensations of Respectability

CHAPTER NINE The Empire of Divorce: Single Women, the Bill of 1857, and Revolt in India

CHAPTER TEN Bigamy and Modernity: The Case of Mary Elizabeth Braddon 201

EPILOGUE: Between Manual and Spectacle 215

Notes 221

Index 247

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Chase, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot. She has also written a book-length critical study of Middlemarch.
Michael Levenson is also Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922 and Modernism and the Fate of Individuality: Character and Form in the Modern English Novel, and is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Modernism.