Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature (eBook)

William Baker is distinguished emeritus professor of English, Northern Illinois University.

Acknowledgments Introduction IThe Publishing Dimension1Reconsidering the Unknown Public: A Puzzle of Literary GainsSimon Frost2The Blackwood Female Literary Network, 1880–1910David Finkelstein3Trace Collaboration and the Problem of Evidence: Anna Jameson and Ottilie von GoetheLinda K. Hughes4Margaret Oliphant and the Changing House of BlackwoodJoanne Shattock5Wheels of Desire: The Popular Adaptations of A. E. W. Mason’s Thrillers from the 1900s to the 1930sAlexis WeedonIIVictorians Major and Minor6 Moral Puzzles in Adam BedeRosemary Ashton7Structure, Tone and Temper in Charles Lever’s Lord KilgobbinTony Bareham8Sister Acts: The Prevalence of Literary Families in the Victorian Period” Troy Bassett9Why Did William Butler Yeats Leave William Allingham Out?Simon Gatrell10Again the Zelig Effect: Israel Zangwill and the Modern Short StoryGraham Law11Beyond Pickwick—Seymour’s Sketches and Regency Print CultureBrian Maidment12Another ‘Spoiling Hand’ at Work on Middlemarch?”K. M. Newton13Rethinking the Endings of Great ExpectationsRobert L. Patten14“Erect His Statue and Worship It”: A Victorian Shakespeare SouvenirFred Schwarzbach15The Satirist Satirized: Thackeray’s Snobs and William North’s Anti-PunchPatrick ScottIIINon-Victorians and Puzzles16The Elephant in the ClassroomMichael Caines17The Inheritors: Conrad and Ford's Incursion into WellslandMario Curreli18Two Quiet Years: The University Press in Oxford in 1770 and 1845Simon Eliot19Where Are Our Moral Foundations?” Emily Dickinson and Henry JamesPhilip Horne20The Archaeology of Pride and PrejudiceDeirdre Le Faye21 The Fallen Idol: From Story to ScreenDavid Lodge22My Collaboration with John SutherlandCedric Watts23Angelica’s Susan: A Challenge from Real Life?René WeisPART IV: John Sutherland’s Life and Work24John Sutherland: A LifeWilliam Baker25Some of His Many BooksKarl Miller26A Lesson in TactLara FeigelNotes on Contributors INDEX