A Companion to the Victorian Novel

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments ix
• Preface xi
• I - Victorian Literary Contexts 1
• The Victorian Novel Emerges, 1800–1840 3
• Periodicals and Syndication 15
• Book Publishing and the Victorian Literary Marketplace 29
• Victorian Illustrators and Illustration 39
• II - Victorian Cultural Contexts 47
• The Nineteenth-Century Political Novel 49
• The Sociological Contexts of Victorian Fiction 69
• Faith, Religion, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel 83
• Philosophy and the Victorian Literary Aesthetic 99
• Science and the Scientist in Victorian Fiction 111
• Law and the Victorian Novel 123
• Works Cited and Selected Works for Further Reading 134
• Intoxication and the Victorian Novel 137
• III - Victorian Genres 149
• Ghosts and Hauntings in the Victorian Novel 151
• The Victorian Gothic 163
• Victorian Detective Fiction 177
• Works Cited and Selected Works for Further Reading 187
• The Victorian Social Problem Novel 189
• The Victorian Sensation Novel 209
• Victorian Juvenilia 223
• Moving Pictures: Film and the Representation of Victorian Fictions 239
• IV - Major Authors of the Victorian Era 249
• Religion in the Novels of Charlotte and Anne Brontë 251
• Works Cited and Selected Works for Further Reading 260
• Victorian Professionalism and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette 263
• Charles Dickens 275
• Works Cited and Selected Works for Further Reading 281
• George Eliot: Critical Responses to Daniel Deronda 283
• George Eliot’s Reading Revolution and the Mythical School of Criticism 293
• Works Cited and Selected Works for Further Reading 304
• Thomas Hardy 307
• The Vanities of William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair 319
• Anthony Trollope and “classic Realism” 329
• Works Cited and Selected Works for Further Reading 339
• George Meredith at the Crossways 341
• Not Burying the One Talent: Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Duty 353
• Wilkie Collins’s Challenges to Pre-Raphaelite Gender Constructs 365
• V - Contemporary Critical Approaches to the Victorian Novel 377
• Postcolonial Readings 379
• Works Cited and Selected Works for Further Reading 389
• Feminist Criticism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel 391
• Works Cited and Selected Works for Further Reading 401
• Otherness and Identity in the Victorian Novel 403
• Selected Bibliography 421
• Index 427
• About the Contributors 439

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