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Author:   Brenda Ayres ,  Sarah E. Maier
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.760kg
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9781032259963

ISBN 10:   1032259965
Pages:   606
Publication Date:   01 December 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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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.

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