A Companion to the Victorian Novel

Subjects:

• Literature » English Literature

Reviews:

• Including sections on literary and cultural contexts, genres (e.g., motion pictures based on specific novels and juvenalia), major authors, and critical approaches, this compendium will be a useful research tool...Baker and Womack's collection is a significant addition to the literature used by upper-division undergraduates through scholars.
  —Choice June 2002
• A Comparison to the Victorian Novel would be an excellent purchase for undergraduate libraries. In addition to the accessible prose style-nearly all the articles are blissfully free of jargon-the relative brevity of the pieces, most of which run about ten pages, means that each is well within even the most reluctant student's attention limits.
  —Victorian Periodicals Review Fall 2003

Table of 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 Brontë by Marianne Thormählen
• Victorian Professionalism and Charlotte Brontë'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