1st Edition
Rewriting the Victorians Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender
1. Engendering History for the Middle Class: Sex and Political Economy in the Edinburgh Review Judith Newton 2. From Trope to Code: The Novel and the Rhetoric of Gender in Nineteenth-century Critical Discourse Ina Ferris 3. Demonic Mothers: Ideologies of Bourgeois Motherhood in the Mid-Victorian Era Sally Shuttleworth 4. Water Rights and the "Crossing o’ Breeds": Chiastic Exchange in The Mill on the Floss Jules Law 5. Tess, Tourism, and the Spectacle of the Woman Jeff Nunokawa 6. "To Tell the Truth of Sex": Confession and Abjection in Late Victorian Writing Marion Shaw 7. Reading the Gothic Revival: "History" and Hints on Household Taste Christina Crosby 8. Excluding Women: The Cult of the Male Genius in Victorian Painting Susan P. Casteras 9. Of Maenads, Mothers, and Feminized Males: Victorian Readings of the French Revolution Linda M. Shires 10. The "Female Paternalist" as Historian: Elizabeth Gaskell’s My Lady Ludlow Christine L. Krueger. Afterword: Ideology and the Subject as Agent Linda M. Shires
Biography
Linda M. Shires is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Stern College, Yeshiva University, New York.
