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The essays in this study contradict what editors Pionke (English, University of Alabama) and Millstein (British literature, Stephen F Austin University) call the myth of Victorian society as one based on "probity and candor". Many of the authors discuss evidence of secrets as essential plot devices in Victoria writers such as Dickens, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy. Others look at social topics, such as the debate over removing burials to cemeteries outside of London, government attempts at censoring accusations of homosexuality by military, religious and parliamentary members and the role played by Harriet Martineau in the repeal of the corn laws. The articles suggest that Victorian writers not only had their own secrets but were also keenly aware of the dichotomy between perceived openness and dark reality. They also portray an ambivalence regarding the value of shining light on that darkness. The essay on magicians typifies this. The stage magicians were eager to uncover the fraudulent behavior of spiritualist and carnival tricksters all the while jealously guarding their own craft mysteries. Annotation 漏2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Table Of Contents:
List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: Victorian Secrecy: An Introduction 1
Albert D. Pionke
1 Hidden Agendas: The Secret to Early Nineteenth-Century British Burial Reform 15
Sarah Hoglund
2 Harriet Martineau's "only political plot": Assassins, Duels, and Corn-Law Repeal 29
Deborah A. Logan
3 Secrecy and Reticence in John Henry Newman's Loss and Gain 47
David J. Bradshaw
4 "What Connexion Can There Be?": Secrecy and Detection in Dickens's Bleak House 59
John McBratney
5 Concealing Minds and the Case of The Woman in White 75
Maria K. Bachman
6 A Victorian Picture Puzzle: Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller k Masterstroke 95
Eleanor Fraser Stansbie
7 Detecting Business Fraud at Home: White-Collar Crime and the Sensational Clergyman in Victorian Domestic Fiction 115
Tamara S. Wagner
8 George Eliot's Felix Holt, The Radical and Byronic Secrets 135
Denise Tischler Millstein
9 The Perverse Secrets of Masculinity in Augusta Webster's Dramatic Poetry 149
Robert P. Fletcher
10 Victorian Conjuring Secrets 165
Michael Claxton
11 A Secret Censorship: The British Home Office v. Town Talk 179
Allison L.E. Wee
12 Secrets, Silence, and the Fractured Self: Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles 193
Brooke McLaughlin Mitchell
Bibliography 205
Index 223
List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: Victorian Secrecy: An Introduction 1
Albert D. Pionke
1 Hidden Agendas: The Secret to Early Nineteenth-Century British Burial Reform 15
Sarah Hoglund
2 Harriet Martineau's "only political plot": Assassins, Duels, and Corn-Law Repeal 29
Deborah A. Logan
3 Secrecy and Reticence in John Henry Newman's Loss and Gain 47
David J. Bradshaw
4 "What Connexion Can There Be?": Secrecy and Detection in Dickens's Bleak House 59
John McBratney
5 Concealing Minds and the Case of The Woman in White 75
Maria K. Bachman
6 A Victorian Picture Puzzle: Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller k Masterstroke 95
Eleanor Fraser Stansbie
7 Detecting Business Fraud at Home: White-Collar Crime and the Sensational Clergyman in Victorian Domestic Fiction 115
Tamara S. Wagner
8 George Eliot's Felix Holt, The Radical and Byronic Secrets 135
Denise Tischler Millstein
9 The Perverse Secrets of Masculinity in Augusta Webster's Dramatic Poetry 149
Robert P. Fletcher
10 Victorian Conjuring Secrets 165
Michael Claxton
11 A Secret Censorship: The British Home Office v. Town Talk 179
Allison L.E. Wee
12 Secrets, Silence, and the Fractured Self: Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles 193
Brooke McLaughlin Mitchell
Bibliography 205
Index 223
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