Hidden Hands: Working-class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction 9780821413883, 0821413880, 9780821413890, 0821413899

Tracing the Victorian crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines,

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An innovative study of how the Victorians used books, portraits, fairies, microscopes, and dollhouses to imagine miniatu

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Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tang

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In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettl

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An innovative study of how the Victorians used books, portraits, fairies, microscopes, and dollhouses to imagine miniatu

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Novel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary theo

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A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Arguing t

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Menke's Telegraphic Realism is the first comprehensive reading of Victorian fiction as part of an emerging world of

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Drawing on fresh source material, Fred Kaplan considers the importance From Dickens and Mesmerism of Dickens' invol

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The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869, and the

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Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as wri

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