Annoying the Victorians Book

	Acknowledgements
	The Part Before The First Part	3
Pt. 1	Dickensian Jugglers
1	Fattening Up on Pickwick	21
2	Little Nell - She Dead	35
3	Viewing and Blurring with Dickens	47
4	"All the Wickedness in the World Is Print": Dickens and Subversive Interpretation	61
5	Performance, Roles, the Self, and Our Own Charles Dickens	75
	Interlude I: Who Is Relieved by the Idea of Comic Relief?	91
Pt. 2	Poets and Propriety
6	Forgetting to Remember: Tennyson's Happy Losses	99
7	Tennyson, Hallam's Corpse, Milton's Murder, and Poetic Exhibitionism	113
8	"The Poem Says": Meredith's Modern Love	135
9	The Canonical Poetry of The Pearl	149
	Interlude II: H. Rider Haggard's "The Return of 'She'": An Explication	169
Pt. 3	Fictional Strippers
10	"Words Cannot Express": Frankenstein's Tripping on the Tongue	181
11	Anthony Trollope and the Unmannerly Novel	207
12	The Power of Barchester Towers	225
13	Girl-Watching, Child-Beating, and Other Exercises for Readers of Jude the Obscure	233
	"Afterword"	251
	Notes	255
	Index	269