Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature

1. Introduction: On Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Dinah Birch, Mark Llewellyn

2. Argument as Conflict: Then and Now
Helen Small

3. Ever a Fighter: Browning’s Struggle with Conflict
Herbert F. Tucker

4. Conflict and Imperial Communication: Narrating the First Afghan War
Muireann O’Cinneide

5. Off-White Indians
Kate Flint

6. The Interpretation of Daydreams: Reverie as Site of Conflict in Early Victorian Psychology
Natalie Mera Ford

7. ‘If I am not Grotesque I am Nothing’: Aubrey Beardsley and Disabled Identities in Conflict
Alexandra Tankard

8. Negotiating the Gentle-Man: Male Nursing and Class Conflict in the ‘High’ Victorian Period
Holly Furneaux

9. ‘Resolved in Defiance of Fool and of Knave’?: Chartism, Children and Conflict
Malcolm Chase

10. ‘Conversing with Monstrosities’: Evolutionary Theory and Contemporary Responses to the Novels of Wilkie Collins
Janice M. Allan

11. Dickens and the Heritage Industry; or, Culture and the Commodity
Juliet John

12. The King and Who? Dance, Difference, and Identity in Anna Leonowens and The King and I
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

13. ‘The Utmost Intricacies of the Soul’s Pathways’: the Significance of Syntax in George Eliot’s Felix Holt, The Radical
Melissa Raines

14. Culture Wars? Arnold’s Essays in Criticism and the Rise of Journalism 1865–1895
Laurel Brake

15. Shrieking Sisters and Bawling Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in Sarah Grand and Mary Cholmondeley
Galia Ofek

16. After Eternal Punishment: ‘Fin de Siècle’ as Literary Eschatology
Matthew Bradley

Avainsanat: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Social History, Cultural History, Nineteenth-Century Literature