How should we understand Victorian cultural conflict? The Victorians were fiercely disputatious, divided between multiple views of the political, religious and social issues that motivated their changing aspirations. Such debates are a fundamental aspect of the literary culture of the period, and the essays in this collection propose new ways of understanding their significance. Ranging from detailed readings of key literary figures (Browning, Collins, Dickens, Eliot) to explorations of cross-period themes (the philosophical roots of conflict; dreams and psychology; consumption; imperialism and race) or specific literary movements or moments (Chartism; journalism; writing of the Afghan War; New Woman novels), they address diverse areas of intellectual inquiry about what mattered most to the Victorians. These essays speak collectively in arguing for a reinterpretation of literary and cultural conflict through a greater critical awareness of the productive analyses available within such debates over difference in the period. The aim is not to resolve conflicted cultural moments or movements, but to explore the slippages and instabilities which so fascinated, intrigued and inspired the Victorians themselves. The confidence of the Victorian age was not built on consensus; the Victorians were divided between multiple views of the political, religious and social issues that motivated their changing aspirations. Such contentions were a fundamental aspect of the literature of the period, and this book proposes new ways of understanding their significance.
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'The volume's strength lies in its breadth, which is reflected in the wealth of critical approaches.' - Andrew Cusack, Trinity College Dublin, The European Legacy
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JANICE M.ALLAN Senior Lecturer in English, University of Salford, UK DINAH BIRCH Professor of English, University of Liverpool, UK MATTHEW BRADLEY Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Liverpool, UK LAUREL BRAKE Professor of Literature and Print Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, UK MALCOLM CHASE Professor in Labour History, University of Leeds, UK KATE FLINT Professor of English, Rutgers University, US NATALIE FORD independent scholar, UK HOLLY FURNEAUX Lecturer in Victorian Studies, University of Leicester, UK JULIET JOHN Reader in Victorian Literature, University of Liverpool, UK MARK LLEWELLYN Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool, UK MUIREANN O'CINNEIDE Lecturer in English, National University of Ireland, Ireland GALIA OFEK Lecturer in English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel MELISSA RAINES independent scholar, UK HELEN SMALL Fellow in English, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK ALEX TANKARD, independent scholar, University of Liverpool, UK HERBERT F. TUCKER John C. Coleman Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature, University of Virginia, US SHARON WELTMAN Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, US
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| Introduction: On Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature |
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1 Argument as Conflict: Then and Now |
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2 Ever a Fighter: Browning's Struggle with Conflict |
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3 Conflict and Imperial Communication: Narrating the First Afghan War |
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5 The Interpretation of Daydreams: Reverie as Site of Conflict in Early Victorian Psychology |
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6 `If I am not Grotesque I am Nothing': Aubrey Beardsley and Disabled Identities in Conflict |
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7 Negotiating the Gentle-Man: Male Nursing and Class Conflict in the `High' Victorian Period |
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8 `Resolved in Defiance of Fool and of Knave'?: Chartism, Children and Conflict |
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9 `Conversing with Monstrosities': Evolutionary Theory and Contemporary Responses to the Novels of Wilkie Collins |
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10 Dickens and the Heritage Industry; or, Culture and the Commodity |
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11 The King and Who? Dance, Difference, and Identity in Anna Leonowens and The King and I |
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12 `The Utmost Intricacies of the Soul's Pathways': the Significance of Syntax in George Eliot's Felix Holt, The Radical |
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13 Culture Wars? Arnold's Essays in Criticism and the Rise of Journalism 1865-1895 |
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14 Shrieking Sisters and Bawling Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in Sarah Grand and Mary Cholmondeley |
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15 After Eternal Punishment: `Fin de Siecle' as Literary Eschatology |
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| Selected Bibliography |
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JANICE M.ALLAN Senior Lecturer in English, University of Salford, UK DINAH BIRCH Professor of English, University of Liverpool, UK MATTHEW BRADLEY Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Liverpool, UK LAUREL BRAKE Professor of Literature and Print Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, UK MALCOLM CHASE Professor in Labour History, University of Leeds, UK KATE FLINT Professor of English, Rutgers University, US NATALIE FORD independent scholar, UK HOLLY FURNEAUX Lecturer in Victorian Studies, University of Leicester, UK JULIET JOHN Reader in Victorian Literature, University of Liverpool, UK MARK LLEWELLYN Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool, UK MUIREANN O'CINNEIDE Lecturer in English, National University of Ireland, Ireland GALIA OFEK Lecturer in English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel MELISSA RAINES independent scholar, UK HELEN SMALL Fellow in English, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK ALEX TANKARD, independent scholar, University of Liverpool,UK HERBERT F. TUCKER John C. Coleman Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature, University of Virginia, US SHARON WELTMAN Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, US.
