Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Family Metaphor

Chapter 2 Motherhood, Mother Country, and Migrant Maternity

Chapter 3 “No Crime to Kill a Bastard–Child”: Stereotypes of Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales

Chapter 4 The New Woman in Her Confinement: Fin-de-siècle Constructions of Maternity and Motherhood

Chapter 5 “Another Class”: The Lady’s Maid in Short Stories 1920–1950

Chapter 6 The Destabilisation of Gender and National Boundaries in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair : A Long Nineteenth-Century Perspective

Chapter 7 “Would You Not Like to Try All Sorts of Lives – One Is So Very Small”: Katherine Mansfield as a Threshold Person

Chapter 8 Transferential Rhetoric and Beyond: The West Indian Presence in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda and Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray

Chapter 9 Bandsmen, Brass Band Uniforms and Nineteenth-Century Militarism: Southern Pennine Bandsmen and Stereotypes of Military Masculinity, c. 1840–1914

Chapter 10 Comparative Decadence? Male Queerness in Late Nineteenth- and Late Twentieth-Century Fiction

Chapter 11 Cherchez La Femme: Looking for Lesbian Femininities in Literature, 1850–1928

Chapter 12 “Utterly Subversive of Feminine Delicacy”: Victorian Sensibilities and the Unspeakable Allegations in Countess Russell’s Divorce Suit

Chapter 13 Killing the “Angel in the House”: Violence and Victim-Blaming in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall