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Intro; Preface; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Family Metaphor; Works Cited; Section I: Unconventional Mothers of the Nation; Chapter 2: Motherhood, Mother Country, and Migrant Maternity; Introduction: Challenging the Angel in the House; Queering the Family; Killing the Children of the Nation; Debunking the Marriage Plot; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 3: "No Crime to Kill a Bastard-Child": Stereotypes of Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales; Law, the Spectre of the Death Penalty, and Infanticide; Deprived or Depraved? Poverty and Infanticide
InsanityContemporary Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Infanticide Stereotypes; Works Cited; Chapter 4: The New Woman in Her Confinement: Fin-de-siècle Constructions of Maternity and Motherhood; Works Cited; Section II: Gender, Class, and the Nation; Chapter 5: "Another Class": The Lady's Maid in Short Stories 1920-1950; Works Cited; Chapter 6: The Destabilisation of Gender and National Boundaries in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair: A Long Nineteenth-Century Perspective; Nationalism and Gender: A Few Theoretical Reflections
(Cross- )Gender Imagi-Nation in Nineteenth-Century Scottish LiteratureA Scots Quair: Nationalist and Feminist Intersections; Androgynising the Nation: Chris and Ewan Jr.; Conclusion; Works Cited; Section III: Gender, Race, and the Empire; Chapter 7: "Would You Not Like to Try All Sorts of Lives
One Is So Very Small": Katherine Mansfield as a Threshold Person; Works Cited; Chapter 8: Transferential Rhetoric and Beyond: The West Indian Presence in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda and Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray; Education and Rationalising Cosmopolitanism in Belinda
Societal Tensions in Amelia Opie's Adeline MowbraySavanna, the Grateful Slave and "Cosmotropican" Protest; Works Cited; Section IV: Undoing Hegemonic and Military Masculinities; Chapter 9: Bandsmen, Brass Band Uniforms and Nineteenth-Century Militarism: Southern Pennine Bandsmen and Stereotypes of Military Masculinity, c. 1840-1914; Brass Bands: Creating a Stereotype of Industrial Working-Class Masculinity; Southern Pennine Brass Bands: A Vehicle for Gender Expressed as Class; Military Orthodoxy and Training the Amateur Brass Band; The 1859 Volunteer Movement; The Gentleman Bandsman
The Band Uniform: Uniformity, Respectability and Martial MasculinityWorks Cited; Chapter 10: Comparative Decadence? Male Queerness in Late Nineteenth- and Late Twentieth-Century Fiction; Introduction: Precarious Playing Fields; Decadent Texts: Decadent Authors; Shades of Masculinity; Homosexuality as Subversion and Normality; Conclusion; Works Cited; Section V: Undoing the Heteronormative Family; Chapter 11: Cherchez La Femme: Looking for Lesbian Femininities in Literature, 1850-1928; Introduction: Cherchez la femme; "How Pretty She Was!": Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853)
InsanityContemporary Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Infanticide Stereotypes; Works Cited; Chapter 4: The New Woman in Her Confinement: Fin-de-siècle Constructions of Maternity and Motherhood; Works Cited; Section II: Gender, Class, and the Nation; Chapter 5: "Another Class": The Lady's Maid in Short Stories 1920-1950; Works Cited; Chapter 6: The Destabilisation of Gender and National Boundaries in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair: A Long Nineteenth-Century Perspective; Nationalism and Gender: A Few Theoretical Reflections
(Cross- )Gender Imagi-Nation in Nineteenth-Century Scottish LiteratureA Scots Quair: Nationalist and Feminist Intersections; Androgynising the Nation: Chris and Ewan Jr.; Conclusion; Works Cited; Section III: Gender, Race, and the Empire; Chapter 7: "Would You Not Like to Try All Sorts of Lives
One Is So Very Small": Katherine Mansfield as a Threshold Person; Works Cited; Chapter 8: Transferential Rhetoric and Beyond: The West Indian Presence in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda and Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray; Education and Rationalising Cosmopolitanism in Belinda
Societal Tensions in Amelia Opie's Adeline MowbraySavanna, the Grateful Slave and "Cosmotropican" Protest; Works Cited; Section IV: Undoing Hegemonic and Military Masculinities; Chapter 9: Bandsmen, Brass Band Uniforms and Nineteenth-Century Militarism: Southern Pennine Bandsmen and Stereotypes of Military Masculinity, c. 1840-1914; Brass Bands: Creating a Stereotype of Industrial Working-Class Masculinity; Southern Pennine Brass Bands: A Vehicle for Gender Expressed as Class; Military Orthodoxy and Training the Amateur Brass Band; The 1859 Volunteer Movement; The Gentleman Bandsman
The Band Uniform: Uniformity, Respectability and Martial MasculinityWorks Cited; Chapter 10: Comparative Decadence? Male Queerness in Late Nineteenth- and Late Twentieth-Century Fiction; Introduction: Precarious Playing Fields; Decadent Texts: Decadent Authors; Shades of Masculinity; Homosexuality as Subversion and Normality; Conclusion; Works Cited; Section V: Undoing the Heteronormative Family; Chapter 11: Cherchez La Femme: Looking for Lesbian Femininities in Literature, 1850-1928; Introduction: Cherchez la femme; "How Pretty She Was!": Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853)