Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature [Hardcover]

How should we understand Victorian conflict? The Victorians were divided between multiple views of the political, religious and social issues that motivated their changing aspirations. Such debates are a fundamental aspect of the literature of the period and these essays propose new ways of understanding their significance.List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Introduction; D.Birch ?& M.Llewellyn Argument as Conflict  Then and Now; H.Small Ever a Fighter: Browning's Struggle with Conflict; H.F.Tucker Conflict and Imperial Communication: Narrating the First Afghan War; M.O'Cinneide Off-White Indians; K.Flint The Interpretation of Daydreams: Reverie as Site of Conflict in Early Victorian Psychiatry; N.Ford 'If I am not grotesque I am nothing': Aubrey Beardsley and Disabled Identities in Conflict; A.Tankard Negotiating the Gentle-Man: Male Nursing and Class Conflict in the 'High' Victorian Period; H.Furneaux 'Resolved in defiance of fool and of knave'?: Chartism, Children and Conflict; M.Chase Conversing with Monstrosities: evolutionary theory and the contemporary response to Wilkie Collins; J.M.Allan Dickens and the Heritage Industry: or, Culture and the Commodity; J.John The King and Who? Dance, Difference, and Identity in Anna Leonowens and The King and I ; S.A.Weltman 'The Utmost Intricacies of the Soul's Pathways': The Significance of Syntax in George Eliot's Felix Holt, The Radical (1866); M.Raines Culture Wars? Arnold's Essays in Criticism and the Rise of Journalism 1864-1895; L.Brake Shrieking Sisters and Bawling Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in Sarah Grand and Mary Cholmondeley; G.Ofek After Eternal Punishment: 'Fin de Si?cle' as Literary Eschatology; M.Bradley Selected Bibliography Index

'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

JANICE M.ALLAN Senior Lecturer in English, University of Salford, UK DINAH BIRCH ProlCÜ