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Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides
readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of
subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing
clear cultural contexts for the works under review-including such
canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, and stories
featuring Sherlock Holmes-the critics in this anthology offer
groundbreaking studies of subversion as a literary motif. For some
late nineteenth-century British novelists, subversion was a central
aspect of their writerly existence. Although-or perhaps
because-most Victorian authors composed their works for a general
and mixed audience, many writers employed strategies designed to
subvert genteel expectations. In addition to using coded and
oblique subject matter, such figures also hid their transgressive
material "in plain sight." While some writers sought to critique,
and even destabilize, their society, others juxtaposed subversive
themes and aesthetics negatively with communal norms in hopes of
quashing progressive agendas.
Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides
readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of
subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing
clear cultural contexts for the works under review-including such
canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, and stories
featuring Sherlock Holmes-the critics in this anthology offer
groundbreaking studies of subversion as a literary motif. For some
late nineteenth-century British novelists, subversion was a central
aspect of their writerly existence. Although-or perhaps
because-most Victorian authors composed their works for a general
and mixed audience, many writers employed strategies designed to
subvert genteel expectations. In addition to using coded and
oblique subject matter, such figures also hid their transgressive
material "in plain sight." While some writers sought to critique,
and even destabilize, their society, others juxtaposed subversive
themes and aesthetics negatively with communal norms in hopes of
quashing progressive agendas.
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