Table of Contents
Introduction: Narratives of Victorian Antifeminism (Tamara S. Wagner)
Chapter One: Feminism and the Canon: Recovery and Reconsideration of Popular Novelists (Pamela K. Gilbert)
Chapter Two: Marketing Antifeminism: Eliza Lynn Linton’s “Wild Women” Series and the Possibilities of Periodical Signature (Susan Hamilton)
Chapter Three: “The Inferiority of Women”: Complicating Charlotte Yonge’s Perception of Girlhood in The Monthly Packet (Kristine Moruzi)
Chapter Four: Domestic History and the Idea of the Nation in Charlotte Yonge’s The Heir of Redclyffe (Lynn Shakinovsky)
Chapter Five: Maiden Pairs: The Sororal Romance in The Clever Woman of the Family (Talia Schaffer)
Chapter Six: Cross-Gendering the Underwoods: Christian Subjection in Charlotte Yonge’s Pillars of the House (Elizabeth Juckett)
Chapter Seven: Marriage Plots and “Matters of More Importance”: Sensationalising Self-Sacrifice in Victorian Domestic Fiction (Tamara S. Wagner)
Chapter Eight: An “original and unlooked-for ending”?: Irony, the Marriage Plot, and the Antifeminism Debate in Oliphant’s Miss Marjoribanks (Amy J. Robinson)
Chapter Nine: Ghosts in the House: Margaret Oliphant’s Uncanny Response to Feminist Success (Leila Walker)
Chapter Ten: The Female Confessor: Confession and Shifting Domains of Discourse in Margaret Oliphant’s Salem Chapel (Heather Milton)
Chapter Eleven: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Secret: An Antifeminist Amongst the New Women (Kate Mattacks)
Chapter Twelve: Idle Vampires and Decadent Maidens: Sensation, the Supernatural, and Mary E. Braddon’s Disappointing Femmes Fatales (Heather L. Braun)
Chapter Thirteen: John Halifax, Gentleman: A Counter Story (Kiran Mascarenhas)
Chapter Fourteen: Annesley Kenealy and Sarah Grand: Biopower and the Limits of the New Woman (Ann-Barbara Graff)
Chapter Fifteen: Ignoring the New Woman: Ten Years of a Victorian Weekly Fiction Magazine (Kate Macdonald)
List of Contributors
Index
