The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (Paperback)

Introduction Deirdre David; 1. The Victorian novel and its readers Kate Flint; 2. The business of Victorian publishing Simon Eliot; 3. The aesthetics of the Victorian novel: form, subjectivity, ideology Linda M. Shires; 4. Industrial culture and the Victorian novel Joseph W. Childers; 5. Gender and the Victorian novel Nancy Armstrong; 6. Sexuality and the Victorian novel Jeff Nunokawa; 7. Race and the Victorian novel Patrick Brantlinger; 8. Detection in the Victorian novel Ronald R. Thomas; 9. Sensation and the fantastic in the Victorian novel Lyn Pykett; 10. Intellectual debate and the Victorian novel: religion, science and the professional John Kucich; 11. Dickens, Melville and a tale of two countries Robert Weisbuch; Guide to further reading.