Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: On Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature....Pages 1-13
Argument as Conflict: Then and Now....Pages 14-32
Ever a Fighter: Browning’s Struggle with Conflict....Pages 33-51
Conflict and Imperial Communication: Narrating the First Afghan War....Pages 52-65
Off-White Indians....Pages 66-79
The Interpretation of Daydreams: Reverie as Site of Conflict in Early Victorian Psychology....Pages 80-92
‘If I am not Grotesque I am Nothing’: Aubrey Beardsley and Disabled Identities in Conflict....Pages 93-108
Negotiating the Gentle-Man: Male Nursing and Class Conflict in the ‘High’ Victorian Period....Pages 109-125
‘Resolved in Defiance of Fool and of Knave’?: Chartism, Children and Conflict....Pages 126-140
‘Conversing with Monstrosities’: Evolutionary Theory and Contemporary Responses to the Novels of Wilkie Collins....Pages 141-156
Dickens and the Heritage Industry; or, Culture and the Commodity....Pages 157-170
The King and Who? Dance, Difference, and Identity in Anna Leonowens and The King and I....Pages 171-185
‘The Utmost Intricacies of the Soul’s Pathways’: the Significance of Syntax in George Eliot’s Felix Holt, The Radical....Pages 186-200
Culture Wars? Arnold’s Essays in Criticism and the Rise of Journalism 1865–1895....Pages 201-212
Shrieking Sisters and Bawling Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in Sarah Grand and Mary Cholmondeley....Pages 213-227
After Eternal Punishment: ‘Fin de Siècle’ as Literary Eschatology....Pages 228-239
Back Matter....Pages 240-257