Varieties of Victorianism

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Past and Present: The Case of Samuel Smiles's Self Help ; Gary Day Imperial Muscular Christianity: Thomas Hughes' Biography of David Livingstone; Mary Angela Schwer Victorian Modernity? Writing the Great Exhibition; Chris Hopkins Black Silk and Red Paisley: the Toxic Woman in Wilkie Collins' Armadale ; Jessica Maynard A Postmodern Victorian: Lewis Carroll and the Critique of Totalising Reason; Simon Malpas Politics as Antagonism and Diversity: Mill and Lyotard; Peter R. Sedgwick Victorian Values and Silas Marner ; K.M. Newton Racism in the Mid-Victorian Novel: Thackeray's Philip ; John Peck The Reason for Drinking in Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge ; Steven Earnshaw 'To Whom Does He Address Himself?: Reading Wordsworth in Browning's Pauline ; Carl Plasa A Rose is a Rose is a Rover; Alistair Walker 'Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before?' Melodrama, Postmodernism and Victorian Culture; Nadine Holdsworth 'A Low Borne Labourer Like You': Audience and Victorian Working-Class Melodrama; Darryl Wadsworth Victorian Values and Fast Young Ladies: From Madeleine Smith to Ruth Rendall; Nick Rance Vampires and Victorians: Count Dracula and the Return of the Repressive Hypothesis; Robert Mighall Of Elephants and Men: The Freak as Victorian and Contemporary Spectacle; Jonathan Skinner Index