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A bold study on the very epicentre of Victorian ideology: the white, male bodyThe Victorian Male Body examines some of the main expressions and practices of Victorian masculinity and its embodied physicality. The white, and frequently middle class, male body was often normalised as the epitome of Victorian values. Whilst there has been a long and fruitful discussion around the concept of the 'too-visible' body of the colonised subject and the expectations placed on women's bodies, the idealised male body has received less attention in scholarly discussions. Through its examination of a broad range of Victorian literary and cultural texts, this new collection opens up a previously neglected field of study with a scrutinising focus on what is arguably the ideologically most important body in Victorian society. This collection provides a wide variety of essays on different aspects of Victorian literature and culture, considering the variety of forms that this 'idealised' male body actually encompassed: fat, starving or disabled bodies, the ghostly figure, the 'othered' body, and the developing body of the schoolboy. The chapters in this book offer a detailed and clear reassessment of the Victorian concepts of manliness, masculinity, homosociality, morality, action, and adventure.Key FeaturesProvides a wide variety of essays on different aspects of Victorian literature and culture with subjects ranging from nature poetry, disability and pirates, fat and thin men, ghost soldiers and popular magazinesOpens up a neglected field of study with a scrutinizing focus on the ideologically most important body in Victorian societyAllows a re-evaluation of other areas of Victorian culture such as colonialism and debates about class, religion and scienceEnables a detailed and clear reassessment of the Victorian concepts of manliness, masculinity, homosociality, morality, action, and adventure

British India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the literature of British India.The book traces the development of Anglo-Indian writing from its genesis in the 1820s and 1830s through the nineteenth century. Previously unstudied texts by women poets and travel-writers, members of the colonial administration and British and Indian contributors to the periodical press are examined alongside the well-known work of Rudyard Kipling and William Jones. Key events of Victorian India - the Indian Mutiny, the sati controversy, the rise of Bengal nationalism - are re-aligned within a dual literary and political context, emphasising the engagement of both colonizer and colonized writers with canonical British literature as well as their responses to their immediate surroundings. At the same time, the book explores the colonizers' enduring concern with their own representations of 'home'.The book argues that the colonial literature of British India demonstrates the existence of a distinct Anglo-Indian cultural community, self-defined against Britain as well as against its colonial surroundings, and at times open to the inclusion of Indian as well as British participants. In doing so, it transforms our current understanding of the literature of British India and its relationship to Victorian culture.

This book is one of a five-volume series, Victorian Material Culture (general editors Tatiana Kontou and Vicky Mills), designed to present primary source materials on aspects of Victorian culture. This volume (volume IV) focuses on manufactured things, including textiles (fabrics, clothing, paper, carpets etc.), metal goods (cutlery, pins, locks etc.), and household items (including ceramics, glassware, soap, candles etc.). The volume's editors, Wynne and Yates, offer detailed introductions to each section as well as an extensive introduction to the whole volume, which demonstrates the significance of manufacturing to the political, social and cultural environment of the Victorian period.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Introduction to Victorian Material Culture -- Introduction to Volume I: Raw Materials -- Part 1 Animal kingdom -- 1.1 Meat -- 1 Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist: A Parish Boy's Progress -- 2 Arthur Lloyd, 'American Beef' -- 3 Upton Sinclair, The Jungle -- 4 Joseph Conrad, 'An Anarchist', A Set of Six -- 5 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland -- 1.2 Animal products: blubber/baleen, fur, ivory -- 6 Herman Melville, Moby Dick -- or, The Whale -- 7 Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers -- 8 William Edward Traill, Fur Trade Letters of Willie Traill: 1864-1918 -- 9 Pauline E. Johnson, 'The Cattle Thief' -- 10 Arthur H. Neumann, Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa: Being an Account of Three Years' Ivory-Hunting Under Mount Kenia and among the Ndoorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a Trip to the North of Lake Reudolph -- 11 Thomas Mofolo, Chaka: An Historical Romance -- Part 2 Vegetable kingdom -- 2.1 Agriculture and trade -- 12 Harriet Martineau, 'Maternal Economy', from 'Cinnamon and pearls' -- 13 Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa -- 14 Joseph J. Walters, 'Sundry Experiences' -- 2.2 Cotton -- 15 Karl Marx, 'The Labor Process or the Production of Use Values' and 'The Production of Surplus Value' -- 16 Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave -- 17 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 'Free Labor' -- 18 [Unknown], 'The Mill Hand's Petition' -- 19 Elizabeth Twining, 'A Lecture on Cotton: Given at the Working People's Rooms, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn' -- 2.3 Sugar -- 20 James Grainger, The Sugar Cane -- 21 Frieda Cassin, With Silent Tread: A West Indian Novel -- 22 Claude McKay, 'Two-An'-Six', Songs -- 2.4 Indigo, opium and tea -- 23 Dinabandhu Mitra, Nil Darpan -- or the Indigo -- 24 Zhang Changjia, 'Opium Talk'.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Keywords -- Bibliography -- Introduction to Volume III: A machine age - Victorian writing about inventions and technological things -- Part 1 The march of invention -- 1 Alexander Somerville, The Autobiography of a Working Man [extract] -- 2 John Stoughton, The Palace of Glass and the Gathering of the People: A Book for the Exhibition [extract] -- 3 Michael Angelo Garvey, The Silent Revolution, or the Future Effects of Steam and Electricity upon the Conditions of Mankind [extract] -- 4 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'Ode for the Opening of the International Exhibition' -- 5 F. R. Conder, 'The Best Friend of the Working Man' [extract] -- 6 'The World in a Hurry' -- 7 'The Latest Patent' -- 8 A. R. Bennett, On the Telephoning of Great Cities [extract] -- 9 Alfred Russel Wallace, The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Failures [extract] -- Part 2 Transport -- 2.1 Third-class rail travel -- 10 Railway Reform: Its Expediency and Practicability Considered [extract] -- 11 'Railway Politeness' and 'The Third Class Traveller's Petition' -- 12 D. T. Timins, 'From Roofless Pen to Corridor Coach: The Evolution of the 3rd Class Carriage on the South Eastern Railway' [extract] -- 2.2 Metropolitan underground railway -- 13 J. Hain Friswell, 'A Journey Underground' -- 14 Simon Sterne, 'The Greathead Underground Electric Railway' [extract] -- 15 Fred T. Jane, 'The Romance of Modern London, III: Round the Underground on an Engine' -- 2.3 Tricycle and bicycle -- 16 'Women on Wheels' -- 17 'The Social Effect of Bicycling' -- 18 E. B. Turner, 'Health on the Bicycle' -- 19 Cesare Lombroso, 'The Bicycle and Crime' -- 2.4 Horseless carriage -- 20 J. Munro, 'Carriages Without Horses' -- 21 [H. Cunningham], 'Horseless Carriages' [extract] -- Part 3 Illumination -- 3.1 Gas light and electric light -- 22 'Electric Lighting'.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Introduction to Volume IV: The industrial revolution and the mass production of commodities -- Part 1 The context of manufacturing in Victorian Britain -- 1 'Peel's Velveteens' -- 2 George Dodd, Days at the Factories, or the Manufacturing Industries of Great Britain Described [extract] -- 3 Richard H. Horne, 'The Female School of Design in the Capital of the World' -- 4 Image: 'Calico Printing' -- 5 John Capper, 'The Northern Wizard' -- 6 Anon, 'Help for Women' -- 7 Karl Marx, 'The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof' -- 8 Anon, 'Sewing Machines' -- 9 Lyon Playfair, 'On Patents and the New Patent Bill' -- 10 J. T. Slugg, Reminiscences of Manchester Fifty Years Ago -- Part 2 Textiles -- 2.1 Fabrics -- 11 Edward Baines, History of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain -- 12 Anon, 'A Day at the Nottingham Lace Manufactories' -- 13 Charles Dickens and W. H. Wills, 'Spitalfields' -- 14 John Capper, 'British Cotton' -- 15 Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South -- 16 Edward Baines, 'On the Woollen Manufacture of England -- With Special Reference to the Leeds Clothing District' -- 17 'The Diary of John Ward of Clitheroe, Weaver 1860-64' -- 18 Image: 'Cotton Printing' -- 19 Image: 'Wool Machinery' -- 20 Image: 'Weaving Looms' -- 21 Anon, 'Honiton Lace' -- 22 William Morris, 'Textile Fabrics' -- 23 Anon, 'French Lace' -- 2.2 Clothing -- 24 Thomas Hood, 'The Song of the Shirt' -- 25 Harriet Martineau, 'Rainbow Making' -- 26 Samuel Sidney, 'A Ladies' Warehouse' -- 27 Mrs Henry Wood, Mrs Halliburton's Troubles -- 28 Anon, 'Gloves' -- 29 Anon, 'A Crinoline Manufactory' -- 30 Edith Simcox, 'Eight Years of Co-operative Shirtmaking' -- 31 Ada Heather-Bigg, 'Women and the Glove Trade' -- 2.3 Carpets -- 32 'Carpets'.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Introduction to Volume II: Science and Medicine -- Part 1 Practice -- 1.1 Natural philosophy -- 1 George Adams, 'On the Nature and Properties of Air' -- 1.2 Astronomy and navigation -- 2 Neville Maskelyne, 'Draft instructions for John Crosley to go on a voyage to New Holland on board HMS Investigator' -- 3 John Frederick William Herschel, 'Of the Nature of Astronomical Instruments and Observations in General' -- 4 George Biddell Airy, 'Astronomy' -- 1.3 Meteorology -- 5 Luke Howard, 'Of the Barometer' -- 6 John Frederick William Herschel, 'Of Meteorological Instruments -- and first, of the Barometer and its attached Thermometer' -- 7 Robert H. Scott, 'Kew Marine Barometer' -- 1.4 Geography and exploration -- 8 Francis Galton, 'Letter Addressed by Francis Galton, Esq., to the Secretary', in 'Hints to Travellers', Journal of the Royal Geographical Society -- 9 William Ford Stanley, 'Packing of Instruments', in Surveying and Levelling Instruments Theoretically and Practically Described -- 1.5 Metrology -- 10 Charles Piazzi Smyth, 'Instrumentals', in Life and Work at the Great Pyramid -- 1.6 Natural history -- 11 Charles Darwin, 'Geology' -- 12 Richard Owen, 'Zoology' -- 13 William Hooker, 'Botany' -- 14 J. C. Prichard, 'Ethnology' -- 1.7 Microscopy -- 15 Charles R. Goring, 'On Mr. Tulley's thick aplanatic object-glasses, for diverging rays -- with an account of a few microscopic test objects' -- 16 Jabez Hogg, 'Introduction', in The Microscope -- 17 Charles Darwin, 'On the use of the microscope on board ship' -- 1.8 Medicine -- 18 René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, 'Introduction', and John Forbes, 'Explanation of the Plates', in A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest, and on Mediate Auscultation -- 19 D. M. Cammann, 'An Historical Sketch of the Stethoscope'.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Introduction to Volume V: Fashionable Things -- Part 1 Embodying Fashionability -- 1.1 Context -- 1 H. R. H., 'A Complaint.' -- 2 Mrs Merrifield, 'How Far Should the Fashions be Followed?' -- 3 [Anon], 'Conduct and Carriage -- Or, Rules to Guide a Young Lady on Points of Etiquette and Good Breeding in her Intercourse with the World.' -- 4 [Caroline Stephen], 'Thoughtfulness in Dress.' -- 5 [Anon], 'A Lady's Question: What Shall We Wear?' -- 6 E. P. [Emily Pfeiffer], 'The Tyranny of Fashion.' -- 7 Mrs H. R. Haweis, 'Importance of Dress.' -- 8 [Anon], Statement and 'Editorial Note', The Rational Dress Society's Gazette -- 1.2 Outlines -- contours -- boundaries -- 1.2.1 Shaping the silhouette: the corset and the crinolette -- 9 Madame Roxey A. [Ann] Caplin, 'On Gestation.' -- 10 Image: advertisement, 'The London Corset Company' -- 11 Image: photograph of crinolette, Great Britain, ca. 1870 (made) -- 1.2.2 The 'Grecian Bend', 'Little Feet' and the 'Alexandra Limp' -- 12 Uncle Grumbler, '"The Grecian Bend."' -- 13 S. L. B., 'The Lady with the Little Feet.' -- 14 Image: [Anon], '"The Grecian Bend."' -- 15 [Anon], 'General News.' -- 16 [Anon], 'Fashion's Follies.' -- 1.2.3 The 'Dolly Varden': a literary fashion -- 17 Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge -- A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. -- 18 Image: G. W. Hunt, 'Dolly Varden' (music title page) -- 19 The Silkworm, 'Spinnings in Town.' -- 20 [Anon], 'Dolly Vardens.' -- 21 [Anon], 'Observations on London and Parisian Fashions.' -- 1.3 Cosmetics -- 22 [Anon], 'Materials for the Toilette. VIII. On Cosmetics.' -- 23 Advertisement for Pears's Rouge & -- Pears's Pearl Powder -- 24 'Rouge.' -- 25 Charles Reade, 'A Simpleton. A Story of the Day.' -- 26 Medicus, 'The Toilet-Table, and What Should Lie Thereon'.

How and why should we study Victorian Britain? The answer to this question used to be that it was the Victorian contribution to modern politics which stood out above all else. This book suggests that politics are central, but must be more broadly construed, as a pervasive part of Victorian culture as a whole

Bringing together historical, literary and sociological theory, this study recaptures the Victorians' broad sense of epistemological uncertainty about their rapidly changing society, reconstructs novelists' specific attempts to legitimate their traditionally low-status genre and offers fresh readings of novels by Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, William North, Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charlotte Yonge, among others.

Reading Victorian Deafness is the first book to address the crucial role that deaf people, and their unique language of signs, played in Victorian culture. Drawing on a range of works, from fiction by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, to poetry by deaf poets and life writing by deaf memoirists Harriet Martineau and John Kitto, to scientific treatises by Alexander Graham Bell and Francis Galton, Reading Victorian Deafness argues that deaf people's language use was a public, influential, and contentious issue in Victorian Britain. The Victorians understood signed languages in multiple, and