The power of lies : transgression in Victorian fiction / by Kucich, John

Table of Contents: “…Trollope and the antibourgeois elite -- Competitive elites in Wilkie Collins : cultural intellectuals and their professional others -- Lying and impulsiveness in Elizabeth Gaskell -- The professional and the mother : moral disempowerment in East Lynne -- Moral authority in Hardy's late novels : the gendering of art -- Feminism's ethical contradictions : Sarah Grand and New Woman writing.…”
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