Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Phillip Mallett
Introduction: Transfiguring the Unbearable
Raffaella Antinucci and Adrian Grafe
I. Heroic Vulnerability
The Resilience of the Anglo-Italian Heroine in Margaret Collier Galletti di Cadilhac's Babel (1887)
Claudia Capancioni
Elephantine Resilience: The Case of Joseph Merrick
Franco Lonati
Ordinary Heroes: My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragette Movement
Francesca Orestano
The Creation of the Modern Superhero: The Vulnerability and Resilience of Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel
Agnes Strickland-Pajtok
II. Women Under Pressure
Resilient Women in Ellen Wood's Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles:Rethinking Feminine Vulnerability
Mariaconcetta Costantini
Journeying Towards Wholeness in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge
Julia Courtney
Nameless and Friendless: Art, Resilience and Catharsis in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Claudia Zilletti
George du Maurier's Trilby (1894) as Self-Loss and Recovery
Raffaella Sciarra
III. Sensation, Deprivation and Opportunity
The Resilience and Vulnerability of Gemstones and Their Owners: Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Rajah's Diamond"
Angelo Riccioni
Arnold Bennett and "the spectacle of existence": The Battle Against Time in Anna of the Five Towns and
The Old Wives' Tale
Francesca D'Alfonso
Split Self-Fashioning: Benjamin Disraeli and Working-Class Resilience in Sybil
Daniele Niedda
Life's Threats and Opportunities: Little Dorrit, or Orphans' Mazy Life
Carla Fusco
IV. The Endurance of Poetry
Suffering and the Necessity for Change in Keats's Odes and Hyperion
Laure-Hélène Anthony-Gerroldt
"Red is the strangest pain to bear": Charlotte Mew's Poetics of Creative Magdalenism
Christina Maria Mirza
Mourning Economy: Tennyson's Poetry and the "Commerce with the Dead"
Saverio Tomaiuolo
An Unknown Coleridge: The Trauma of a Court Scandal, Patriarchal Control, and a Poet's Response
Tom Zaniello
About the Contributors
Index

Vulnerability and Resilience in English Literature of the Long 19th Century

Critical Essays