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Victorian scandals : representations of gender and class / edited by Kristine Ottesen Garrigan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, c1992.Description: xi, 337 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0821410199 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DA550 .V54 1992
Contents:
Decorum, scandal, and the press / Kristine Ottesen Garrigan -- "Intended only for the husband" : gender, class, and the provision for divorce in England, 1858-1868 / Gail L. Savage -- Wrongful confinement : the betrayal of women by men, medicine, and law / Marilyn J. Kurata -- "Come, substantial damages!" / Jane W. Stedman -- The actress in Victorian pornography / Tracy C. Davis -- The muscular Christian as schoolmarm / John C. Hawley -- George Eliot and the journalists : making the mistress moral / Teresa Mangum -- Froude on the Carlyles : the Victorian debate over biography / D.J. Trela -- Julia Margaret Cameron and the "ennoblement" of photographic portraiture / Joanne Lukitsh.
The (other) great evil : gambling, scandal, and the National Anti-Gambling League / David C. Itzkowitz -- "Sin of the age" : infanticide and illegitimacy in Victorian London / Ann R. Higginbotham -- Victorian scandals, Victorian strategies / Thaïs E. Morgan.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks DA550.V54 1992 1 Available 33710000730122

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Decorum, scandal, and the press / Kristine Ottesen Garrigan -- "Intended only for the husband" : gender, class, and the provision for divorce in England, 1858-1868 / Gail L. Savage -- Wrongful confinement : the betrayal of women by men, medicine, and law / Marilyn J. Kurata -- "Come, substantial damages!" / Jane W. Stedman -- The actress in Victorian pornography / Tracy C. Davis -- The muscular Christian as schoolmarm / John C. Hawley -- George Eliot and the journalists : making the mistress moral / Teresa Mangum -- Froude on the Carlyles : the Victorian debate over biography / D.J. Trela -- Julia Margaret Cameron and the "ennoblement" of photographic portraiture / Joanne Lukitsh.

The (other) great evil : gambling, scandal, and the National Anti-Gambling League / David C. Itzkowitz -- "Sin of the age" : infanticide and illegitimacy in Victorian London / Ann R. Higginbotham -- Victorian scandals, Victorian strategies / Thaïs E. Morgan.

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