Contents

• Introduction /Shearer West
• 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