Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature

JANICE M.ALLAN Senior Lecturer in English, University of Salford, UK DINAH BIRCH Professor of English, University of Liverpool, UK MATTHEW BRADLEY Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Liverpool, UK LAUREL BRAKE Professor of Literature and Print Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, UK MALCOLM CHASE Professor in Labour History, University of Leeds, UK KATE FLINT Professor of English, Rutgers University, US NATALIE FORD independent scholar, UK HOLLY FURNEAUX Lecturer in Victorian Studies, University of Leicester, UK JULIET JOHN Reader in Victorian Literature, University of Liverpool, UK MARK LLEWELLYN Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool, UK MUIREANN O'CINNEIDE Lecturer in English, National University of Ireland, Ireland GALIA OFEK Lecturer in English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel MELISSA RAINES independent scholar, UK HELEN SMALL Fellow in English, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK ALEX TANKARD, independent scholar, University of Liverpool,UK HERBERT F. TUCKER John C. Coleman Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature, University of Virginia, US SHARON WELTMAN Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, US.

• List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Introduction; D.Birch  & M.Llewellyn Argument as Conflict – Then and Now; H.Small Ever a Fighter: Browning's Struggle with Conflict; H.F.Tucker Conflict and Imperial Communication: Narrating the First Afghan War; M.O'Cinneide Off-White Indians; K.Flint The Interpretation of Daydreams: Reverie as Site of Conflict in Early Victorian Psychiatry; N.Ford 'If I am not grotesque I am nothing': Aubrey Beardsley and Disabled Identities in Conflict; A.Tankard Negotiating the Gentle-Man: Male Nursing and Class Conflict in the 'High' Victorian Period; H.Furneaux 'Resolved in defiance of fool and of knave'?: Chartism, Children and Conflict; M.Chase Conversing with Monstrosities: evolutionary theory and the contemporary response to Wilkie Collins; J.M.Allan Dickens and the Heritage Industry: or, Culture and the Commodity; J.John The King and Who? Dance, Difference, and Identity in Anna Leonowens and The King and I ; S.A.Weltman 'The Utmost Intricaciesof the Soul's Pathways': The Significance of Syntax in George Eliot's Felix Holt, The Radical (1866); M.Raines Culture Wars? Arnold's Essays in Criticism and the Rise of Journalism 1864-1895; L.Brake Shrieking Sisters and Bawling Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in Sarah Grand and Mary Cholmondeley; G.Ofek After Eternal Punishment: 'Fin de Siècle' as Literary Eschatology; M.Bradley Selected Bibliography Index

'The volume's strength lies in its breadth, which is reflected in the wealth of critical approaches.' - Andrew Cusack, Trinity College Dublin, The European Legacy