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Victorian Secrecy - Economies of Knowledge and Concealment (Paperback)
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Victorian Secrecy - Economies of Knowledge and Concealment (Paperback)
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Whether commercial, personal, political, professional, or
spiritual, knowledge was capital for the Victorians in their
ongoing project of constructing a modern information-based society.
Victorian Secrecy explores the myriad ways in which knowledge was
both zealously accumulated and jealously guarded by individuals,
institutions, and government entities in Victorian Britain.
Offering a wide variety of critical approaches and disciplinary
perspectives, the contributors examine secretive actors with
respect to a broad range of subjects, including the narrator in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, John Henry Newman's autobiographical
novel Loss and Gain, Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller's
Masterstroke, modes of detection in Bleak House, the secret history
of Harriet Martineau's role in the repeal of the Corn Law, and
Victorian stage magicians. Taken together, the essays provide a
richly textured account of which modes of hiding and revealing
articulate secrets in Victorian literature and culture; how social
relations are formed and reformed in relationship to secrecy; and
what was at stake individually, aesthetically, and culturally in
the Victorians' clandestine activities.
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