Acknowledgments Introduction: Subversive Literary Cultures by Kenneth Womack I. Subversive Women Chapter 1: The Mysterious Identity of Helen Dickens, Victorian Novelist by Troy J. Bassett Chapter 2: Moonrise and the Ascent of Eve, the Woman Titan: Charlotte Bronte's Epiphanies of the Fourfold Elemental Feminine by Martin Bidney Chapter 3: Condoning Adultery: Problems of Marriage and Divorce in George Eliot's Life and Writing by Nancy Henry II. Subversive Ideologies Chapter 4: Unraveling Orientalism: Dawe's "Yellow and White" by James M. Decker Chapter 5: "A Familiar Kinde of Chastisement": Fasting in the Nineteenth-Century by Joseph Lennon Chapter 6: The Effect of Emerging New Media on Book Publishing: Lessons from the Origins of Cross Media Storytelling in the Early Twentieth Century for Contemporary Transmedia Researchers by Alexis Weedon Chapter 7: "And this also has been one of the dark places of the earth": Reading Levinasian Ethics and Literary Impressionism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness by Kenneth Womack III. Subversive Genres Chapter 8: "Count Me In": Comedy in Dracula by Ira B. Nadel Chapter 9: "The Seasoned Spirit of the Cunning Reader": The Textual Subversions of The Turn of the Screw by Ruth Robbins Chapter 10: "Fallen" Clergymen: The Wages of Sin in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, and Henry Arthur Jones's Michael and His Lost Angel by Jeanette Shumaker Chapter 11: Sherlock Holmes: The Criminal in the Detective by Joseph Wiesenfarth Index About the Editors and Contributors