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Introduction x Notes on Contributors xiv Part One History in Focus 1 1832 3 Lawrence Poston 2 1848 19 Antony H. Harrison 3 1870 35 Linda K. Hughes 4 1897 51 Stephen Arata Part Two Passages of Life 5 Growing Up: Childhood 69 Claudia Nelson 6 Moving Out: Adolescence 82 Chris R. Vanden Bossche 7 Growing Old: Age 97 Teresa Mangum 8 Passing On: Death 110 Gerhard Joseph and Herbert F. Tucker 9 Victorian Sexualities 125 James Eli Adams Copyrighted Material Part Three Walks of Life 10 Clerical 141 Christine L. Krueger 11 Legal 155 Simon Petch 12 Medical 170 Lawrence Rothfield 13 Military 183 John R. Reed 14 Educational 194 Thomas William Heyck 15 Administrative 212 Robert Newsom 16 Financial 225 Christina Crosby 17 Industrial 244 Herbert Sussman 18 Commercial 258 Jennifer Wicke 19 Spectacle 276 Joss Marsh 20 Publishing 289 Richard D. Altick Part Four Kinds of Writing 21 Poetry 307 E. Warwick Slinn 22 Fiction 323 Hilary Schor 23 Drama 339 Alan Fischler 24 Life Writing 356 Timothy Peltason 25 Sage Writing 373 Linda H. Peterson Notes Contents Contributors ix 26 Literary Criticism 388 David E. Latané, Jr Part Five Borders 27 Under Victorian Skins: The Bodies Beneath 407 Helena Michie 28 On the Parapets of Privacy 425 Karen Chase and Michael Levenson 29 "Then on the Shore of the Wide World": The Victorian Nation and its Others 438 James Buzard General Subject Index 456 Index of Victorian Works 481

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