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Victorian novels remain enormously popular today: some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught at all levels. These works have also attracted a great deal of critical attention, with much current scholarship examining the novel in relation to its historical, political, and cultural contexts. This reference book is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel, its background, and its legacy. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and offers a fresh account of past, current, and new directions in scholarship.
The volume is divided into several broad sections, with chapters in each section treating more specialized topics. The first section looks at the emergence of the Victorian novel and its literary precursors, with particular emphasis on the growth of serialization and the development of the novel of syndication. The second explores significant social and cultural facets of nineteenth-century British literature, while the third discusses the principal features of different genres, such as ghost stories, the Gothic, detective fiction, the social problem novel, and contemporary film adaptations. Individual authors are examined in the fourth section, while the fifth overviews various critical approaches and their application to nineteenth-century fiction.
Contents
Preface Victorian Literary Contexts The Victorian Novel Emerges, 1800-1840 by Ian Duncan Periodicals and Syndication by Graham Law Book Publishing and the Victorian Literary Marketplace by Peter L. Shillingsburg Victorian Illustrators and Illustration by Lynn Alexander Victorian Cultural Contexts The Nineteenth-Century Political Novel by Julian Wolfreys The Sociological Contexts of Victorian Fiction by M. Claire Loughlin Faith, Religion, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Nancy Cervetti Philosophy and the Victorian Literary Aesthetic by Martin Bidney Science and the Scientist in Victorian Fiction by Michael H. Whitworth Law and the Victorian Novel by Elizabeth F. Judge Intoxication and the Victorian Novel by Kathleen McCormack Victorian Genres Ghost and Hauntings in the Victorian Novel by Lucie J. Armitt The Victorian Gothic by Peter Kitson Victorian Detective Fiction by Lillian Nayder The Victorian Social Problem Novel by James G. Nelson The Victorian Sensation Novel by Helen Debenham Victorian Juvenilia by Christine Alexander Moving Pictures: Film and the Representation of Victorian Fictions by Todd F. Davis Major Authors of the Victorian Era Religion in the Novels of Charlotte and Anne BronTE by Marianne ThorMAhlen Victorian Professionalism and Charlotte BronTE's Villette by Roger Poole Charles Dickens by K.J. Fielding George Eliot: Critical Responses to Daniel Deronda by Nancy Henry George Eliot's Reading Revolution and the Mythical School of Criticism by William R. McKelvy Thomas Hardy by Edward Neill The Vanities of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair by Juliet McMaster Anthony Trollope and "Classic Realism" by K.M. Newton George Meredith at the Crossways by Margaret Harris "Not Burying the One Talent": Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Duty by Barbara Quinn Schmidt Wilkie Collins's Challenges to Pre-Raphaelite Gender Constructs by Sophia Andres Contemporary Critical Approaches to the Victorian Novel Postcolonial Readings by Roslyn Jolly Feminist Criticism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Eileen Gillooly Otherness and Identity in the Victorian Novel by Michael Galchinsky Selected Bibliography Index
