Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim

Jane Ford is a Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University. She is a specialist in the literature and culture of the fin de siècle and she is currently completing a monograph which examines the complex network of metaphors that emerged around late-nineteenth-century conceptions of economic self-interest and exploitation. She is co-editor of Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives (Routledge, 2016) and has published essays on Vernon Lee, Lucas Malet and Bertram Mitford. Alexandra Gray is a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. Alexandra’s research interests include the New Woman, fin-de-siècle literature and culture, art history and criticism and medical and psychiatric history. She has recently published her first monograph, Self-Harm in New Woman Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), and has also written on the work of Irish New Woman, George Egerton, hyperhidrosis in fiction, and the orphan figure in Victorian literature and culture. She is a co-editor of ‘The Gateless Barrier,’ an online impact project for the purposes of feminist literary recovery, featuring research on Lucas Malet’s life and work.

Notes on Contributors



Acknowledgements



Brief Chronology of Lucas Malet’s Life and Works



Foreword: Patricia Lorimer Lundberg



Reading Malet "through the eyelashes": An Introduction to her Life and Work.



JANE FORD AND ALEXANDRA GRAY



Maletian Bodies



1. Hysterical Bodies and Gothic Spaces: Lucas Malet’s "Moral Dissecting-Room."



LOUISE BENSON JAMES



2. "That very ugly saddle": Disability, Adaptation and Paternal Inheritance in The History of Sir Richard Calmady.



CLARE WALKER GORE



3. "Vanity of Vanities": The Bildungsroman, Corporeal Fragility and the Aesthetic Ideal in The Far Horizon.



ALANI HICKS-BARTLETT



Dissident Women



4. Mad Dogs and English (New) Women: Grotesque Gender in The Carissima.



ALEXANDRA GRAY



5. Cosmopolitan Romance and Feminist Aestheticism in Adrian Savage.



CATHERINE DELYFER



6. The Authorial Ambition of Deadham Hard: Reimagining Womanhood, Profession and Desire.



CRESCENT RAINWATER



Malet and her Contemporaries



7. Reorienting the Bildungsroman: Progress Narratives, Queerness and Disability in The History of Sir Richard Calmady and Jude the Obscure.



JILL EHNENN



8. Some Chapter of Some Other Story: Henry James, Lucas Malet, and the Real Past of The Sense of the Past.



TALIA SCHAFFER



Catholic (proto-)Modernism



9. Against the English Nation: The ideological Proto-modernism of The Far Horizon.



HOLLY LAIRD



10. "Undecode-able wireless signals": Telepathy and Contamination in The Survivors.



JANE FORD



Appendix



In Memoriam, Ernest D. Chesterfield.



LUCAS MALET



Telling the Untold Stories: Lucas Malet’s Critique of an Aesthetic Trope.



RUTH ROBBINS