A companion to the Victorian novel / edited by William Baker and Kenneth Womack.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-426) and index.

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 -- Nineteenth-century political novel / Julian Wolfreys -- 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 F. Judge -- Intoxication and the Victorian novel / Kathleen McCormack -- Ghosts and hauntings in the Victorian novel / Lucie J. Armitt -- Victorian gothic / Peter J. Kitson -- Victorian detective fiction / Lillian Nayder -- Victorian social problem novel / James G. Nelson -- Victorian sensation novel / Helen Debenham -- Victorian juvenilia / Christine Alexander -- Moving pictures : film and the representation of Victorian fictions / Todd F. Davis -- Religion in the novels of Charlotte and Anne Brontë / Marianne Thormählen -- Victorian professionalism and Charlotte Brontë'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 -- 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 -- Postcolonial readings / Roslyn Jolly -- Feminist criticism and the nineteenth-century novel / Eileen Gillooly -- Otherness and identity in the Victorian novel / Michael Galchinsky.

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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 work is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel, its background, and its legacy. The first section looks at the emergence of the Victorian novel and its literary precursors, with particular emp.

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