‘A beauty treatment that leaves us glowing’? Female masturbation and its consequences
in The Secret Vice
August 2008; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 10979 words.
This chapter begins to take a broader look at the way the symptoms of masturbation can be seen to map over those of other conditions. The chapter commences with a detailed consideration of Victorian...
‘A Nest of Almost Infant Blackmailers’: The End of Innocence in ‘The Turn of the Screw’ and De Profundis
in Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
June 2007; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 16704 words.
In the early 1880s, Henry James made the transatlantic aesthete his own despite the figure's increasing association with Oscar Wilde. Though James privately dissociated himself from Wilde's artistic,...
Adapting
in Dreaming in Books
August 2009; published online February 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 18474 words.
Unlike Laurence Sterne's use of handwriting, who signed copies of the first edition of Tristram Shandy to keep it from being pirated, the miscellanies used such invitations to handwriting,...
Afterword
in The Pleasures of Memory
June 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 1545 words.
The Afterword discusses how the interlocking between forms of seriality in associationist theories of memory and the print medium of serial fiction demonstrates an extended historical development of...
Afterword
in The Secret Vice
August 2008; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 2958 words.
This chapter reflects on the abiding nature of Victorian masturbatory discourse and examines the way the discourse is utilised and modified in the work of contemporary authors with specific reference...
Afterword Centers, Margins, and Vanishing Points: Locating Invalidism in the Nineteenth Century
in Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
May 2004; published online February 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 3811 words.
If the invalid occupied a prominent position in nineteenth-century medical understanding and social life, does it necessarily follow that this figure—capacious enough to contain so many...
“All My Afflictions”: Invalids and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Britain
in Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
May 2004; published online February 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 20819 words.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the figure of the invalid assumed a kind of public visibility unparalleled in earlier periods of English history. Charting the conditions that...
‘All That is Solid Melts into Air’: Phantom Fortune and the Ghosts of Capitalism
in In Lady Audley's Shadow
October 2010; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 8613 words.
This chapter considers the Phantom Fortune, centring on imperialist and colonial issues, and addresses the questions that are raised by capitalistic economic practices during late Victorian Britain....
The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey’s Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism
in Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826
February 2010; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 15189 words.
This chapter discusses the expanded scope of exposing the colonial crimes of England. It declares a shared British-Spanish American patriotism, and notes the increased fear that Napoleon Bonaparte...
American Literature Internationale: Translation, Strike, and the Time of Political Possibility
in Beautiful Democracy
September 2007; published online February 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 16788 words.
This chapter considers several connected variants of “the international,” ranging from issues of translation to the specter of the worldwide revolt of the working class. Its archive is the...