The Victorians and race / edited by Shearer West.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-239) and index.

Race, science and culture : historical continuities and discontinuities, 1850-1914 / Douglas A. Lorimer -- Images of otherness and the visual production of difference : race and labour in illustrated texts, 1850-1865 / Tim Barringer -- Black and white? Viewing Cleopatra in 1862 / Mary Hamer -- The inner and the outer : Dalip Singh as an Eastern stereotype in Victorian England / Simeran Man Singh Gell -- Race and the social plot in The mystery of Edwin Drood / Tim Dolin -- The half-breed as Gothic unnatural / H.L. Malchow -- The colonized in the colonies : representation of Celts in Victorian battle painting / Joseph A. Kestner -- 'Principle, part and protest' : the language of Victorian Orangeism in the north of England / Donald M. MacRaild -- Reinventing origins : the Victorian Arthur and racial myth / Inga Bryden -- Shuttling and soul making : tracing the links between Algeria and the egalitarian feminism in the 1850s / Deborah Cherry -- Other women and new women : writing race and gender in The story of an African farm / Anita Levy -- Women and Orientalism : gendering the racialized gaze / Reina Lewis -- 'Tracing the route to England' : nineteenth-century Caribbean interventions into English debates on race and slavery / Helen M. Cooper.