The Power of Lies : : Transgression, Class, and Gender in Victorian Fiction / / John Kucich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kucich, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART I. THE BOUNDARIES OF BOURGEOIS CULTURE --; 1. Trollope and the Antibourgeois Elite --; 2. Competitive Elites in Wilkie Collins: Cultural Intellectuals and Their Professional Others --; PART II. SEXUAL INVERSION --; 3. Lying and Impulsiveness in Elizabeth Gaskell --; 4. The Professional and the Mother: Moral Disempowerment in East Lynne --; PART III. TRANSGRESSION IN LATE .. VICTORIAN FICTION --; 5. Moral Authority in Hardy's Late Novels: The Gendering of Art --; 6. Feminism's Ethical Contradictions: Sarah Grand and New Woman Writing --; Afterword --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501724527; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501724527
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Kucich.

Although moral earnestness has long been considered characteristic of the Victorians, Kucich maintains that English fiction in the nineteenth century was as interested in lies as in honesty. In this important book, Kucich explores the fascination with lying in novels by Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Wood, Thomas Hardy, and Sarah Grand.