Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: On Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature

   • Dinah Birch, Mark Llewellyn

   Pages 1-13

3. Argument as Conflict: Then and Now

   • Helen Small

   Pages 14-32

4. Ever a Fighter: Browning’s Struggle with Conflict

   • Herbert F. Tucker

   Pages 33-51

5. Conflict and Imperial Communication: Narrating the First Afghan War

   • Muireann O’Cinneide

   Pages 52-65

6. Off-White Indians

   • Kate Flint

   Pages 66-79

7. The Interpretation of Daydreams: Reverie as Site of Conflict in Early Victorian Psychology

   • Natalie Mera Ford

   Pages 80-92

8. ‘If I am not Grotesque I am Nothing’: Aubrey Beardsley and Disabled Identities in Conflict

   • Alexandra Tankard

   Pages 93-108

9. Negotiating the Gentle-Man: Male Nursing and Class Conflict in the ‘High’ Victorian Period

   • Holly Furneaux

   Pages 109-125

10. ‘Resolved in Defiance of Fool and of Knave’?: Chartism, Children and Conflict

    • Malcolm Chase

    Pages 126-140

11. ‘Conversing with Monstrosities’: Evolutionary Theory and Contemporary Responses to the Novels of Wilkie Collins

    • Janice M. Allan

    Pages 141-156

12. Dickens and the Heritage Industry; or, Culture and the Commodity

    • Juliet John

    Pages 157-170

13. The King and Who? Dance, Difference, and Identity in Anna Leonowens and The King and I

    • Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

    Pages 171-185

14. ‘The Utmost Intricacies of the Soul’s Pathways’: the Significance of Syntax in George Eliot’s Felix Holt, The Radical

    • Melissa Raines

    Pages 186-200

15. Culture Wars? Arnold’s Essays in Criticism and the Rise of Journalism 1865–1895

    • Laurel Brake

    Pages 201-212

16. Shrieking Sisters and Bawling Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in Sarah Grand and Mary Cholmondeley

    • Galia Ofek

    Pages 213-227

17. After Eternal Punishment: ‘Fin de Siècle’ as Literary Eschatology

    • Matthew Bradley

    Pages 228-239

18. Back Matter

    Pages 240-257

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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.

• Charles Dickens
• English literature
• George Eliot
• British and Irish Literature

'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

• Liverpool University, UK

  Dinah Birch, Mark Llewellyn

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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