1st Edition

Charlotte Yonge Rereading Domestic Religious Fiction

Edited By Tamara Wagner Copyright 2012
202 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Charlotte Yonge, a dedicated religious, didactic, and domestic novelist, has become one of the most effectively rediscovered Victorian women writers of the last decades. Her prolific output of fiction does not merely give a fascinatingly different insight into nineteenth-century popular culture; it also yields a startling complexity. This compels a reappraisal of the parameters that have long... Read more

1. Introduction: Novelist with a Reserved Mission: The Different Forms of Charlotte Yonge Tamara S. Wagner  2. Realism and Reserve: Charlotte Yonge and Tractarian Aesthetics Susan E. Colón  3. Charlotte Yonge: Marketing the Missionary Story Susan Walton  4. The Ship that Bears Through the Waves Teresa Huffman Traver  5. The Charity Pig: Altruism and Self-Deceit in Charlotte M. Yonge’s The Stokesley Secret: or, How The Pig Paid the Rent Leslee Thorne-Murphy  6. "Never read anything that can at all unsettle your religious faith": Reading and Writing in The Monthly Packet Kristine Moruzi  7. Led Astray to be Newly Framed: Redeeming Sensational Fraud in Charlotte Yonge’s Epistolary Experiments Tamara S. Wagner  8. Emma in the 1860s: Austen, Yonge, Oliphant, Eliot June Sturrock  9. Disability and the Individual Talent: Adolescent Girlhood in The Pillars of the House and What Katy Did Elizabeth Hale  10. "To Face Apparent Discrepancies with Revelation": Examining the Fossil Record in Charlotte Yonge’s The Trial Mia Chen  11. Charlotte M. Yonge’s Bank Account: A Rich New Source of Information on Her Work and Her Life Charlotte Mitchell

Biography

Tamara S. Wagner specialises in Victorian literature. Recent books include Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901 (2010) and Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 (2004), as well as collections on Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (2009) and Victorian Settler Narratives (forthcoming).