A Changed Man
in Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction
December 2007; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 8575 words.
This chapter combines all of Hardy's work that was written at different points from 1881 to 1900. The discussion centres on a group of late stories, and occasionally references the earlier work. This...
Choking in Chesnutt
in The War on Words
July 2010; published online February 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 5689 words.
Charles W. Chesnutt's writings, as a black author, reassert the minority's right to the ruling caste's technology of literacy. Chesnutt's dramatization in The Marrow of Tradition played an...
Coda
in Genres of the Credit Economy
April 2008; published online February 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 1382 words.
This chapter returns to the topic of the hierarchy of the modern disciplines, and also offers some thoughts about the new genres that are proliferating in cyberspace, apparently beyond the...
Coda: reading labour and writing women's literary history
in Women's Work
July 2010; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 1383 words.
Despite three decades of groundbreaking feminist scholarship, the project of writing women's literary history is still, to an extent, overshadowed by the critical narratives about professionalism,...
Coda: Victorian Thing Culture and the Way We Read Now
in The Ideas in Things
November 2006; published online February 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 6236 words.
This coda argues that the objects in Victorian novels were not fully in the grip of the kind of fetishism Karl Marx and Marxists have ascribed to industrial culture. A host of ideas resided...
Coleridge, Keats and a Full Perception
in The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period
June 2007; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 14278 words.
This chapter discusses attaining a full perception in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats, and notes Coleridge's efforts to outline a unified creative power. Keats, on the other hand,...
Colonial ghosts: mimicry, history, and laughter
in The Ghost Story, 1840–1920
August 2010; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 13382 words.
This chapter presents a comparative reading of Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu and Rudyard Kipling. It argues that the representations of mimicry challenge the notions of colonial authority. It shows that...
/ Color, Race, and the Spectacle of Opinion in Beaumont's Marie
in Democracy's Spectacle
January 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 20163 words.
Gustave de Beaumont's novel, Marie, or, Slavery in the United States, opens with the frank admission that “a single idea dominates the work and forms the central point around which all the...
Compulsory Domesticity: Roderick Hudson, Love, and Friendship in the Gilded Age
in Manly Love
September 2009; published online February 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 10396 words.
This chapter focuses on Henry James's first acknowledged novel, Roderick Hudson (1878), a hitherto unrecognized classic of the romantic friendship genre. James's text provides a means to...
Conclusion
in Elizabeth Gaskell
September 2006; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 1622 words.
Between Mary Barton and Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell has shifted from public to private themes, from fatherhood to motherhood, and from a self-conscious use of Romantic or Biblical allusion...