Research Catalog

Title

Annoying the Victorians / James R. Kincaid.

Author

Kincaid, James R. (James Russell)

Publication

New York : Routledge, 1995.

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Details

Description

xi, 271 pages; 23 cm

Subject

English literature > 19th century > Theory, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index.

Contents

The Part Before The First Part -- Pt. 1. Dickensian Jugglers. 1. Fattening Up on Pickwick. 2. Little Nell - She Dead. 3. Viewing and Blurring with Dickens. 4. "All the Wickedness in the World Is Print": Dickens and Subversive Interpretation. 5. Performance, Roles, the Self, and Our Own Charles Dickens -- Interlude I: Who Is Relieved by the Idea of Comic Relief? -- Pt. 2. Poets and Propriety. 6. Forgetting to Remember: Tennyson's Happy Losses. 7. Tennyson, Hallam's Corpse, Milton's Murder, and Poetic Exhibitionism / James R. Kincaid and Buck McMullen. 8. "The Poem Says": Meredith's Modern Love. 9. The Canonical Poetry of The Pearl -- Interlude II: H. Rider Haggard's "The Return of 'She'": An Explication -- Pt. 3. Fictional Strippers. 10. "Words Cannot Express": Frankenstein's Tripping on the Tongue. 11. Anthony Trollope and the Unmannerly Novel. 12. The Power of Barchester Towers. 13. Girl-Watching, Child-Beating, and Other Exercises for Readers of Jude the Obscure -- "Afterword" / Elijah Pogram.

ISBN

• 0415907284 :
• 0415907292 (pbk.) :

LCCN

93042943

OCLC

• 29427732
• ocm29427732

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries