Annoying the Victorians

James Kincaid is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture, (1992).

• Chapter 1 The Part Before The First Part; Part 1 Dickensian Jugglers; Chapter 1a Fattening Up on Pickwick; Chapter 2 Little Nell—She Dead; Chapter 3 Viewing and Blurring with Dickens; Chapter 4 All the Wickedness in the World Is Print Dickens and Subversive Interpretation; Chapter 5 Performance, Roles, the Self, and Our Own Charles Dickens; Part 2 Interlude I; Chapter 7 Who Is Relieved By the Idea of Comic Relief?; Part 3 Poets And Propriety; Chapter 6 Forgetting to Remember Tennyson's Happy Losses; Chapter 7a Tennyson, Hallam's Corpse, Milton's Murder, and Poetic Exhibitionism, Buck McMullen; Chapter 8 The Poem Says Meredith's Modern Love; Chapter 9 The Canonical Poetry of The Pearl; Part 4 Interlude II; Chapter 12 H. Rider Haggard's The Return of 'She'; Part 5 Fictional Strippers; Chapter 10 Words Cannot Express Frankenstein's Tripping on the Tongue; Chapter 11 Anthony Trollope and the Unmannerly Novel; Chapter 12a The Power of Barchester Towers; Chapter 13 Girl-Watching, Child-Beating, and Other Exercises for Readers of Jude the Obscure; Chapter 17 Afterword;