Queer Victorian Families

Duc Dau is an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Shale Preston is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English at Macquarie University, Australia.

Foreword Claudia Nelson Introduction Duc Dau and Shale Preston Part 1: Queervolutions 1. The "Queer-Looking Party" Challenge to Family in Alice Laura White 2. Esther Summerson's Estate: The Queer, Quasi-Monarchical Line of Beauty, Family, and Inheritance in Bleak House Shale Preston 3. Michael Field’s Dramatically Queer Family Dynamics Tracy Olverson 4. William Sharp's Neo-Paganism: Queer Identity and the National Family Michael Shaw Part 2: Queer Actually 5. A "Strange Family Story": Count Fosco, His Animal Children, and the "Safe" Patriarch in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White Monica Flegel 6. "The right and natural law of things": Disability and the Form of the Family in the Fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge Clare Walker Gore 7. Two Girls in Love: Romantic Friendship and the Queer Family in Elizabeth Anna Hart’s The Runaway Ellen Brinks Part 3: Queer Connections 8. Reading on the Contrary: Cousin Marriage, Mansfield Park, and Wuthering Heights Talia Schaffer 9. The Queer, Statistical Kinship of Tennyson and Melville Alec Magnet 10. The Victorian Family in Queer Time: Secrets, Sisters, and Lovers in The Woman in White and Fingersmith Lauren N. Hoffer and Sarah E. Kersh