Victorian Literary Cultures (eBook)

Kenneth Womack is professor of English and dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University. James M. Decker is Professor of English, Humanities, and Language Studies at Illinois Central College.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Subversive Literary Cultures by Kenneth Womack I. Subversive WomenChapter 1: The Mysterious Identity of Helen Dickens, Victorian Novelist by Troy J. BassettChapter 2: Moonrise and the Ascent of Eve, the Woman Titan: Charlotte Brontë’s Epiphanies of the Fourfold Elemental Feminine by Martin BidneyChapter 3: Condoning Adultery: Problems of Marriage and Divorce in George Eliot’s Life and Writing byNancy HenryII. Subversive IdeologiesChapter 4: Unraveling Orientalism: Dawe’s “Yellow and White” by James M. Decker Chapter 5: “A Familiar Kinde of Chastisement”: Fasting in the Nineteenth-Century by Joseph LennonChapter 6: The Effect of Emerging New Media on Book Publishing: Lessons from the Origins ofCrossMedia Storytelling in the Early Twentieth Century for Contemporary Transmedia Researchersby Alexis WeedonChapter 7: “And this also has been one of the dark places of the earth”: Reading LevinasianEthics andLiterary Impressionism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness by Kenneth WomackIII. Subversive GenresChapter 8: “Count Me In”: Comedy in Dracula by Ira B. NadelChapter 9: “The Seasoned Spirit of the Cunning Reader”: The Textual Subversions of The Turn of the Screw by Ruth RobbinsChapter 10: “Fallen” Clergymen: The Wages of Sin in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Charles Reade’sThe Cloister and the Hearth, and Henry Arthur Jones’s Michael and His Lost Angelby Jeanette ShumakerChapter 11: Sherlock Holmes: The Criminal in the Detective by Joseph WiesenfarthIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors