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Tables of Contents for The Private Rod
Chapter/Section Title
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Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Sensation, Violence, and Privacy
1
22
Fictional Records
A. ``Pound'' of Flesh: Morality and the Economy of Sexual Violence in Oliver Twist
23
46
Sensational Revision
Brutality and Propriety: Wilkie Collins's The woman in White and the Divorce Act of 1857
69
34
The Dangerous Woman: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Sensational (En)gendering of Domestic Law in Aurora Floyd
103
52
Realism Reconsidered
Sensational Violations: Betraying Boundaries in Margaret Oliphant's Salem Chapel
155
44
Gwendolen's Madness: Sensational Performance and Reasonable Fear in Daniel Deronda
199
41
Conclusion: Four Cases of Victorian Values
240
7
Notes
247
24
Bibliography
271
10
Index
281