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Machine generated contents note: I. Victorian Literary Contexts -- The Victorian Novel Emerges, 1800-1840 -- Ian Duncan -- Periodicals and Syndication -- Graham Law -- Book Publishing and the Victorian Literary Marketplace -- Peter L. Shillingsburg -- Victorian Illustrators and Illustration -- Lynn Alexander -- II. Victorian Cultural Contexts -- The Nineteenth-Century Political Novel -- Julian Wolfreys -- The Sociological Contexts of Victorian Fiction -- M. Clare Loughlin-Chow -- Faith, Religion, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Nancy Cervetti -- Philosophy and the Victorian Literary Aesthetic -- Martin Bidney -- Science and the Scientist in Victorian Fiction -- Michael H. Whitworth -- Law and the Victorian Novel -- Elizabeth E Judge -- Intoxication and the Victorian Novel -- Kathleen McCormack -- III. Victorian Genres -- Ghosts and Hauntings in the Victorian Novel -- Lucie J. Armitt -- The Victorian Gothic -- Peter J. Kitson -- Victorian Detective Fiction -- Lillian Nayder -- The Victorian Social Problem Novel -- James G. Nelson -- The Victorian Sensation Novel -- Helen Debenham -- Victorian Juvenilia -- Christine Alexander -- Moving Pictures: Film and the Representation of Victorian Fictions -- Todd F Davis -- IV. Major Authors of the Victorian Era -- Religion in the Novels of Charlotte and Anne Bronte -- Marianne Thormahlen -- Victorian Professionalism and Charlotte Bronte's Villette -- Russell Poole -- Charles Dickens -- K J. Fielding -- George Eliot: Critical Responses to Daniel Deronda -- Nancy Henry -- George Eliot's Reading Revolution and the Mythical School of -- Criticism -- William R. McKelvy -- Thomas Hardy -- Edward Neill -- The Vanities of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair -- Juliet McMaster -- Anthony Trollope and "Classic Realism" -- K M. Newton -- George Meredith at the Crossways -- Margaret Harris -- "Not Burying the One Talent": Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Duty -- Barbara Quinn Schmidt -- Wilkie Collins's Challenges to Pre-Raphaelite Gender Constructs -- Sophia Andres -- V Contemporary Critical Approaches to the Victorian Novel -- Postcolonial Readings -- Roslyn Jolly -- Feminist Criticism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Eileen Gillooly -- Otherness and Identity in the Victorian Novel -- Michael Galchinsky -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors. |
