Readers and Mistresses

Introduction: '"I am my own mistress"': Kept women in Victorian literature
1 Old, particular, fallen, mustachioed, and queer: Other kept women
2 The women who did (and the men who did not)
3 Wives and mistresses in Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
4 Marian Evans' story: The kept woman in Daniel Deronda
5 Near mis(tres)ses: Narrative potential v. dead ends
Conclusion: 'Conventionality is not morality'
References
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• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres

Dickens; Gaskell; Bronte; kept woman; mistress; empathy; sex work; wives; queer; narratology; narrative justice; reparative reading