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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................................... ii DEDICATION .................................................................................................................. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................... v TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................. vi CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION: QUEER, MARGINALITY, AND MONEY IN VICTORIAN NOVELS ......................................................................... 1 The Word “Queer”: The Other of Victorian Keywords ............. 1 The Versatility of the Word ....................................................... 5 Victorian Queer and Marginal Subjectivity ............................... 7 The Visibility of Money in Victorian Society and Culture ...... 11 II COUNTERFEIT QUEERS IN MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON’S AURORA FLOYD ........................................................... 27 Appearance of “Counterfeit” Queers ....................................... 27 Counterfeit Novelist: Mary Elizabeth Braddon ....................... 32 Refashioning an Identity as the Victorian Popular Novelist .... 35 “Queer” Reading of Aurora Floyd ........................................... 44 The Figure of the Counterfeit ................................................... 53 Queer Affect and Queer Identification ..................................... 59 Conclusion ................................................................................ 63 III ECCENTRICITY AND MARGINALITY IN WILKIE COLLINS’S HIDE AND SEEK ............................................................. 66 Wilkie Collins, the Eccentric Novelist ..................................... 66 Victorian Eccentricity: The Identity of the Extra-Ordinary ..... 72 Valentine Blyth’s Eccentricity and Respectability at Risk ...... 77 In Defense of Eccentricity I: Victorian Man’s Economic Ability ....................................................................................... 83 In Defense of Eccentricity II: Queer Domesticity .................... 90 vi
CHAPTER Page In Defense of Eccentricity III: Moral Manliness ..................... 96 Suffocating Sensation on the Male Body ............................... 104 Conclusion: Standing Out in the Middle ................................ 110 IV ARCHITECTURAL MARGINALITY AND SPATIAL QUEERNESS IN CHARLOTTE BRONTË’S JANE EYRE ............... 115 The Spatialization of Queer Marginality ................................ 115 Comfort in/of Space: The Spatial Normative vs. the Spatial Elsewhere ............................................................................... 119 Jane Eyre: The Making of Architectural Marginality ............ 125 Everywhere of the Spatial Normative .................................... 131 Domestic “Elsewhere”: the Red-Room and the Third Story. 139 Architectural Marginality and Comfort on the Liminal Space: Ferndean Manor .......................................................... 145 Conclusion .............................................................................. 151 V CONCLUSION: VICTORIAN QUEER AND ITS BEYOND ............. 154 Victorian Queer ...................................................................... 154 Its Beyond .............................................................................. 158 Queer for Tomorrow .............................................................. 165 WORKS CITED ............................................................................................................. 167 vii
Page 1 and 2: VICTORIAN QUEER: MARGINALITY AND MO
Page 3 and 4: uncommon or distinguished individua
Page 5: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to th
Page 9 and 10: popular novels. The word was also p
Page 11 and 12: One interesting point that the exam
Page 13 and 14: commonly signified bad money or bas
Page 15 and 16: must be removed or contained, Colli
Page 17 and 18: categorize and confine the Other pa
Page 19 and 20: as Hobsbawm have argued that the in
Page 21 and 22: also perceive money’s involvement
Page 23 and 24: process in which a cultural commodi
Page 25 and 26: While it is Herbert’s view that t
Page 27 and 28: novels, the home is embodied in the
Page 29 and 30: claims that the word “queer” as
Page 31 and 32: associated with the sexual realm, i
Page 33 and 34: history that the word has been appr
Page 35 and 36: epresented in Victorian novels, sug
Page 37 and 38: counterfeiting in money, men and wo
Page 39 and 40: Counterfeit Novelist: Mary Elizabet
Page 41 and 42: like money, particularly the counte
Page 43 and 44: Braddon’s was often positioned in
Page 45 and 46: matter, Shell argues that the relat
Page 47 and 48: are democratically accessible to th
Page 49 and 50: The economic criticism through whic
Page 51 and 52: “subverted realism by exposing th
Page 53 and 54: show the extent to which money can
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advertisement, this novel indicates
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While nineteenth-century culture al
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Conyers’s easy life is based on h
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never been quite right since. Of co
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(190). And indeed, when he has a ch
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would need to invent a difference,
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yet useful, Aurora feels terror but
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associated with the articulation of
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CHAPTER III ECCENTRICITY AND MARGIN
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“conflict in his literary role be
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queer or queerness in the figure of
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Collins’s narrator defends eccent
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since the word has been pervasively
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Gill Miranda conceptualizes the nin
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shows how the privilege of the comm
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Without the norms, any expression c
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instance, the parlor is “neat, cl
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energy to making money. His life is
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performance of the duties” for a
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Samuel Smiles also supports Collins
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In Defense of Eccentricity II: Quee
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domesticity by marriage is consider
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figure does not necessarily overcom
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ecomes adamant in adopting Mary as
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Public” 217), I would say, Collin
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Thomas Arnold’s Rugby School is a
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for economic security and conformit
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the figures of minority subjects. F
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queered in the audience’s eyes, i
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that he has a “suffocating sensat
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argue that desire for disability mu
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democratization of literary consump
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Collins’s novels try to replace t
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dismantle the boundary of the norma
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power and desire in social relation
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explaining the formation of a self.
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find new walls continually erecting
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Rather than giving up their lives a
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unchangeable and non-conformist, Ja
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something underneath as the “oppo
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is realized immediately. John will
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times in the week, nor once or twic
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what male authority desires them to
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oom as the space of violence and ex
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her own drawing-room and refurnishi
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with the resolution that she will f
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Adult Jane comprehends the relation
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Scholars point out the parallel bet
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conceptually associated with servan
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complex meanings of the space of co
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gender norms, Mr. Rochester as male
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With the assumption that a sense of
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION: VICTORIAN QUE
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a line that is imbued with an econo
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social authority, but it provides J
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These texts describe a current hist
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and attitude toward homosexual subj
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economic, and legal statuses of Vic
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“queer” is an unexpected and un
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639-652. Bersani, Leo. Homo. Cambri
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“Counterfeiters.” Reynolds’s
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Flanders, Judith. Inside the Victor
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Hughes, Geoffrey. Swearing. New Yor
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Meyers, Jeffrey. Disease and the No
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Perkins, Pamela, and Mary Donaghy.
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Stoddard Holmes, Martha. “'Bolder
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Wagner, Tamara S. “‘Overpowerin
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