Victorian Secrecy
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Author_Denise Tischler Millstein
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clandestine practices in Victorian literature
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Contemporary Trauma Theory
Corn Law Repeal
crime
Defensive Strategy
Detective Plots
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Eustace Diamonds
Garden Cemeteries
Histoire De La Folie
information control history
knowledge concealment
Lady Audley
Lady Audley's Secret
Lady Audley’s Secret
Lady Dedlock
Laura Fairlie
Lisa Zunshine
literary detection methods
Literary Sensationalism
magic
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Modern Magic
nineteenth-century British culture
Obscene Publications Act
Sensational Sixties
social secrecy studies
Tittle Tattle
Town Talk
Van Zuylen
Victorian narrative analysis
Violate
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White Collar Crime
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138250543
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Whether commercial, personal, political, professional, or spiritual, knowledge was capital for the Victorians in their ongoing project of constructing a modern information-based society. Victorian Secrecy explores the myriad ways in which knowledge was both zealously accumulated and jealously guarded by individuals, institutions, and government entities in Victorian Britain. Offering a wide variety of critical approaches and disciplinary perspectives, the contributors examine secretive actors with respect to a broad range of subjects, including the narrator in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, John Henry Newman's autobiographical novel Loss and Gain, Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke, modes of detection in Bleak House, the secret history of Harriet Martineau's role in the repeal of the Corn Law, and Victorian stage magicians. Taken together, the essays provide a richly textured account of which modes of hiding and revealing articulate secrets in Victorian literature and culture; how social relations are formed and reformed in relationship to secrecy; and what was at stake individually, aesthetically, and culturally in the Victorians' clandestine activities.
Albert Pionke is associate professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA and Denise Tischler Millstein is assistant professor of nineteenth-century British literature at Stephen F. Austin State University, USA.
