Table of Contents:
  • Modernist anti-pastoral in The small house at Allington (1864)
  • Sailing to Australia, reading Othello, transforming the marriage plot in Lady Anna (1874)
  • Fatal Englishness: history and death in Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite (1870)
  • Female desire and the English realist novel in Ayala's Angel (1881)
  • The Governor Eyre affair: race and imperial desire in He knew he was right (1869)
  • Bigamy and the Creole beauty: race anxiety in Dr. Wortle's School (1881).