A companion to the Victorian novel

Pt. 1. Historical contexts and cultural issues.

The publishing world / Kelly J. Mays

Education, literacy, and the victorian reader / Jonathan Rose

Money, the economy, and social class / Regenia Gagnier

Victorian psychology / Athena Vrettos

Empire, race, and the victorian novel / Deirdre David

The victorian novel and religion / Hilary Fraser

Scientific ascendancy / John Kucich

Technology and information: accelerating developments / Christopher Keep

Laws, the legal world, and politics / John R. Reed

Gender politics and women's rights / Hilary M. Schor

The other arts: victorian visual culture / Jeffrey Spear

Imagined audiences: the novelist and the stage / Renata Kobetts Miller.

Pt. 2. Forms of the victorian novel.

Newgate novel to detective fiction / F. S. Schwarzbach

The historical novel / John Bowen

The sensation novel / Winifred Hughes

The Bildungsroman / John R. Maynard

The gothic romance in the victorian period / Cannon Schmitt

The provincial or regional novel / Ian Duncan

Industrial and "condition of England" novels / James Richard Simmons, Jr.

Children's fiction / Lewis C. Roberts

Victorian science fiction / Patrick Brantlinger

Pt. 3.

Victorian and modern theories of the novel and the reception of novels and novelists then and now.

The reception of Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy / Elizabeth Langland

Victorian theories of the novel / Joseph W. Childers

Modern and postmodern theories of prose fiction / Audrey Jaffe

The afterlife of the victorian novel: novels about novels / Anne Humpherys.