Victorian Gaslighting

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Gaslighting Before Gaslight
Diana Bellonby, Nora Gilbert, and Tara MacDonald

I. The Gaslit Mind and Body

1. "Strange Intonations": The Foreign Accents of Disabling Mind Control in Trilby, Dracula, and the Two Film Versions of Gaslight
Nora Gilbert

2. Spiritual Energies: Gaslighting, Yoga, and Cultures of Healing in Nineteenth-Century India
Narin Hassan

3. Obstetric Gaslighting in Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man
Tara MacDonald

II. Marital and Monetary Manipulations

4. Whose Property Is It Anyway?: Economic Gaslighting in the Victorian Novel
Jill Rappoport

5. Gaslighting, Misogynoir, and the Mixed-Race Heiress in The Woman of Colour and Vanity Fair
Rosetta Young

6. Charles Dickens as Gaslighter: A Tale of Two Catherines
Katherine J. Kim

7. "Lit by a fury and a thought": Resistance to Marital Gaslighting in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and Amy Levy's "Xantippe"
Sarah E. Kersh

III. Case Studies in Institutional Gaslighting

8. "The thralldom of gas": Capitalist Gaslighting and the Victorian Coal-Gas Industry
Grace Franklin

9. Structural Scarcity: Women's Economic Writing and Epistemic Gaslighting
Lana L. Dalley

10. "When evidence takes a supernatural character": Religious Gaslighting in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Lois the Witch"
Shalyn Claggett

IV. Rape Culture and Rhetorical Control

11. A Matter of Practicality: Mary Prince and Abolitionist Gaslighting
Doreen Thierauf

12. "Old Ladies, Male and Female": Gaslighting the Reader in Margaret Oliphant's The Perpetual Curate
Elizabeth Coggin Womack

13. Gaslighting Vernon Lee: Hysteria, Rape Culture, and the Lesbian Intellectual
Diana Bellonby

List of Contributors
Index

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• Teoria e crítica de filmes
• Estudos literários: peças e dramaturgos
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900

History of gaslighting, Gas Light 1938 play, Gaslighting in literature, Victorian emotional abuse, Cultural history of gaslighting, Psychological abuse in Victorian era, Gaslighting and patriarchy, Gaslighting and imperialism, Origins of gaslighting, Gender and mental health in the 19th century