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- Victorian Women and Wayward Reading
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Victorian Women and Wayward Reading
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Masculine Identification and Marital Dissolution
- Chapter 2 Novels without Heroines: Sensation and Elective Identification
- Chapter 3 Character Invasion and the Victorian Actress
- Chapter 4 Antipathetic Telepathy: Female Mediums and Reading the Enemy
- Chapter 5 “The Valley of the Shadow of Books”: The Morbidity of Female Detachment
- Chapter 6 The New Crisis: Can We Teach Identification?
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- References
Works Cited
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2020
Book contents
- Victorian Women and Wayward Reading
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Victorian Women and Wayward Reading
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Masculine Identification and Marital Dissolution
- Chapter 2 Novels without Heroines: Sensation and Elective Identification
- Chapter 3 Character Invasion and the Victorian Actress
- Chapter 4 Antipathetic Telepathy: Female Mediums and Reading the Enemy
- Chapter 5 “The Valley of the Shadow of Books”: The Morbidity of Female Detachment
- Chapter 6 The New Crisis: Can We Teach Identification?
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- References
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