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Title
Secrecy and disclosure in Victorian fiction
Type
Text
Monograph
Subject
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism (LCSH)
Secrecy in literature (LCSH)
Secrecy--Great Britain--History--19th century (LCSH)
Language
English
Geographic Coverage
Great Britain
Classification
LCC: PR878.S423 M39 2016
DDC: 823/.809353 full
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Table Of Contents
Introduction: the paradox of duplicity
Dialectics of secrecy and disclosure: the sociology and the narratology of secrecy
Lost in Labassecour: Villette and the privatization of secrecy
Selfishness and secrecy in the "howling wilderness": Thackeray's Vanity fair
Madness and class conflicts: Lady Audley's sensational secrets
Veiled secrets, veiled subjects: Scheherazade and the orientalizing of Victorian secrecy in Bulwer-Lytton's Leila, or, The siege of Granada
The end of secrecy? The adventures of Sherlock holmes
Afterword.
Authorized Access Point
May, Leila Silvana, 1958- Secrecy and disclosure in Victorian fiction