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Revising the Clinic : Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel / by Kennedy, Meegan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.…”
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Music in other words Victorian conversations / by Solie, Ruth A.

Table of Contents: “…Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in 19th-century criticism -- Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years -- "Girling" at the parlor piano -- Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading -- Tadpole pleasures" : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda as music historiography -- Fictions of the opera box.…”
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Revising the Clinic : Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel / by Kennedy, Meegan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.…”
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Nietzsche and the Anglo-Saxon tradition by Mabille, Louise

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the English type -- Englishmen underground ; or, The case of the abdicated playwright -- Hobbes against the world -- Locke, life, language -- Hume on the use and abuse of scepticism for life -- "Some have suspected me of Darwinism" -- The impossible John Stuart Mill -- How Monsieur George Eliot added insult to injury -- Wrong but romantic -- Shakespeare, Sterne, and stage -- The great American who loved the world.…”
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The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Dialectical desires: the eighteenth-century coquette and the invention of nineteenth-century fictional character -- The flirtation of species: Darwinian sexual selection and Victorian narrative -- George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: flirtation, female choice and the revision of Darwinian belief -- Deadly deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the exhaustion of flirtatious desire -- "Acceptable hints of infinity": dissident desires and the erotics of countermodernism.…”
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The madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination / by Gilbert, Sandra M.

Table of Contents: “…Captivity and consciousness in George Eliot's fiction -- pt. VI. Strength in agony : nineteenth-century poetry by women.…”
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Nietzsche and the Anglo-Saxon tradition by Mabille, Louise

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the English type -- Englishmen underground ; or, The case of the abdicated playwright -- Hobbes against the world -- Locke, life, language -- Hume on the use and abuse of scepticism for life -- "Some have suspected me of Darwinism" -- The impossible John Stuart Mill -- How Monsieur George Eliot added insult to injury -- Wrong but romantic -- Shakespeare, Sterne, and stage -- The great American who loved the world.…”
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The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Dialectical desires: the eighteenth-century coquette and the invention of nineteenth-century fictional character -- The flirtation of species: Darwinian sexual selection and Victorian narrative -- George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: flirtation, female choice and the revision of Darwinian belief -- Deadly deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the exhaustion of flirtatious desire -- "Acceptable hints of infinity": dissident desires and the erotics of countermodernism.…”
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The madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination / by Gilbert, Sandra M.

Table of Contents: “…Captivity and consciousness in George Eliot's fiction -- pt. VI. Strength in agony : nineteenth-century poetry by women.…”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / by Langbauer, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / by Langbauer, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad essays collected in memory of James T. Hillhouse /

Table of Contents: “…Booth -- Anthony Trollope : the Palliser novels / A. Mizener -- George Eliot's originals / G.S. Haight -- Middlemarch, George Eliot's masterpiece / S.J. …”
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From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad essays collected in memory of James T. Hillhouse /

Table of Contents: “…Booth -- Anthony Trollope : the Palliser novels / A. Mizener -- George Eliot's originals / G.S. Haight -- Middlemarch, George Eliot's masterpiece / S.J. …”
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The dynamics of genre journalism and the practice of literature in mid-Victorian Britain / by Liddle, Dallas, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The poet's tale : literature, journalism, and genre in 1855 -- The authoress's tale : the triumph of journalism in Harriet Martineau's Autobiography -- The editor's tale : Anthony Trollope and the historiography of the mid-Victorian press -- The reviewer's tale : George Eliot and the end(s) of journalistic apprenticeship -- The clergyman's tale : sensation fiction and the anatomy of a "nine days' wonder" -- The scholars' tales : theories of journalism and the practice of literary history -- Epilogue : the tale of the "owls" : literature, journalism, and genre after 1865.…”
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The dynamics of genre journalism and the practice of literature in mid-Victorian Britain / by Liddle, Dallas, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The poet's tale : literature, journalism, and genre in 1855 -- The authoress's tale : the triumph of journalism in Harriet Martineau's Autobiography -- The editor's tale : Anthony Trollope and the historiography of the mid-Victorian press -- The reviewer's tale : George Eliot and the end(s) of journalistic apprenticeship -- The clergyman's tale : sensation fiction and the anatomy of a "nine days' wonder" -- The scholars' tales : theories of journalism and the practice of literary history -- Epilogue : the tale of the "owls" : literature, journalism, and genre after 1865.…”
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Masked Atheism : Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home / by LaMonaca, Maria

Table of Contents: “…Our Lady of La Salette, George Eliot, and Victorian anxieties about God -- "Seven years a tiny paradise a making": Michael Field's domestic piety.…”
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Masked Atheism : Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home / by LaMonaca, Maria

Table of Contents: “…Our Lady of La Salette, George Eliot, and Victorian anxieties about God -- "Seven years a tiny paradise a making": Michael Field's domestic piety.…”
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Women constructing men female novelists and their male characters, 1750-2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Haggerty -- The medium makes the man: Anne Plumptre's Something new and The history of myself and my friend / Katharina Rennhak -- "Too much in the common novel style": reforming masculinities in Jane Austen's Sense and sensibility / Sarah Ailwood -- Constructing masculine narrative: Charlotte Brontë's The professor / Sara Pearson -- The lifted veil: George Eliot's experiment with first-person narrative / Frederick Burwick -- Assimilating the "pretty youngster": George Eliot's eroticized men on the borderlines of morality, religion, race, and nation / Rainer Emig -- "His spirituality or his manliness": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's (re)constructions of Christian masculinity / Roxanne Harde -- The differential construction of masculinity in the writings of Virginia Woolf / Virginia Richter -- Knitting paradise lost: masculinity and domesticity in the novels of Carol Shields / Ellen McWilliams -- Looking (im)properly: women objectifying men's bodies in contemporary Australian women's fiction / Katherine Bode -- Unmaking the self-made man: Louise Erdrich's fictional exploration of masculinity / Angela Laflen -- "I've tried my entire life to be a good man": Suzanne Brockmann's Sam Starrett, ideal romance hero / Sarah S.G. …”
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