1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Let’s Talk Scandal
Brenda Ayres
Part 1: Scandalous Victoriana
Chapter 1: The Afterlives of Victorian Scandals
Lesley A. Hall
Chapter 2: “Her only fear is convention”:
The Bohemian Girl in Victorian Art and Life
Anne Anderson, Bohemians in Paris, Anglo-Bohemia
Chapter 3: Reading Between the Lines:
“Town Jottings” from the Savage Club in the Brighton Guardian, 1877
Catherine Layton
Chapter 4: Scandalous Stupor:
Chloroform and Robbery in Victorian Periodicals
Ashlee Simon
Chapter 5: Suicide as Scandal:
Representations from Victorian Life and Art
Catherine J. Golden
Chapter 6: Scandalous Women Wearing Cloaks of Religion
Brenda Ayres
Chapter 7: The Darwin Scandal
Tony Schwab
Part 2: Scandalous Parties
Chapter 8: Victorian Atheists: Cultivating Scandal as a Way of Life
David Nash
Chapter 9: Scandals in a Religious Sect: Agapemone
Catherine Layton
Chapter 10: “A Scandalous and Painful Case”: Marriage, Libel, and the Church, 1873–1895
Ginger Frost
Chapter 11: The Cause Célèbre of the Year, If Not the Decade:
May, Dowager Duchess of Sutherland
Catherine Layton
Chapter 12: Regina v. Dunn:
Lady Angela Burdett-Coutts and the Irish Annoyance
Daniel Stuart
Chapter 13: A Poor Gamble:
The Disastrous Elopement of the “Pocket Venus” (Lady Florence Paget)
Catherine Layton
Chapter 14: A “Voice from the Grave”:
Lady Flora Hastings, Queen Victoria, and the Scandal of Pregnancy
Suzanne Daly
Chapter 15: Poisonous Words:
Criminal Rhetoric and the Trials of Mary Ann Cotton and Florence Maybrick
Katherine Anne Gilbert and Cheryl Blake Price
Chapter 16: “I am a woman all alone”: The Case of Mrs. Manning
Catherine Layton
Chapter 17: Lady Lincoln and the Lesser Life of the 1850 Lincoln Divorce
Gail Savage
Chapter 18: Women in the Military and Their Heraldry in the Press
Claire Cookson-Hills
Chapter 19: Virtue v. Heroism:
Kate Dickinson’s Case Against Colonel Valentine Baker
Catherine Layton
Chapter 20: Monstrous Martyrdom:
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Tom Ue and Aaron Eames
Part 3: Scandalous Reading and Delightfully Despicable Novels
Chapter 21: Edith Cooper’s Sin:
Mapping the Wilful Bodies of Michael Field
Sharon Bickle
Chapter 22: “Let us adore spilled blood”:
Swinburne and the Scandal of Poems and Ballads
Michael Craske
Chapter 23: Edith J. Simcox and the Scandal of Queer Form
Kellie Holzer
Chapter 24: Scandalous Exogamy in Anthony Trollope’s The Prime Minister
Lauren Cameron
Chapter 25: Ouida: Her Scandalous Life and Scandalous Novels
Catherine Layton
Chapter 26: The Scandalous Deconstruction of Victorian Morals in Anna Lombard:
What Made Victoria(ns) Cross?
Purna Banerjee
Chapter 27: Daddy’s Little Angel in the House:
The Managing Daughter and the Incest Taboo
Emily Dotson
Chapter 28: The Nineteenth-Century Sex Worker: Avoiding Surveillance, Stereotypes, and Scandal
Hollie Geary-Jones
Chapter 29: Sexy Dirt: Homosexual Scandal and Late-Victorian Social Reform
S. Brooke Cameron
Chapter 30: A Confusion of Discourses: Scandal and Degeneracy at the Fin de Siècle
Sarah E. Maier
Index
Biography
Brenda Ayres is retired from full-time residential teaching but currently teaches nineteenth-century English literature and professional writing online for several universities.
Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick.
