Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment by Denise Tischler Millstein,Albert D. Pionke

By Denise Tischler Millstein,Albert D. Pionke

even if advertisement, own, political, specialist, or non secular, wisdom used to be capital for the Victorians of their ongoing venture of creating a latest information-based society. Victorian Secrecy explores the myriad ways that wisdom used to be either zealously accrued and jealously guarded via contributors, associations, and govt entities in Victorian Britain. delivering a wide selection of serious ways and disciplinary views, the individuals study secretive actors with recognize to a vast diversity of matters, together with the narrator in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, John Henry Newman's autobiographical novel Loss and achieve, Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke, modes of detection in Bleak condominium, the key background of Harriet Martineau's function within the repeal of the Corn legislations, and Victorian level magicians. Taken jointly, the essays offer a richly textured account of which modes of hiding and revealing articulate secrets and techniques in Victorian literature and tradition; how social kinfolk are shaped and reformed in dating to secrecy; and what was once at stake separately, aesthetically, and culturally within the Victorians' clandestine activities.

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