A companion to the Victorian novel /

• Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-
• Thesing, William B.

• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901

• Blackwell,

• Blackwell companions to literature and culture

• 1405132914 (pbk.)
• 9781405132916

• Originally published: 2002.
• Includes bibliographies and index.
• Introduction -- Reed Ueda (Tufts University) -- Introduction. -- Notes on Contributors. -- Part I: Historical Contexts and Cultural Issues: -- 1. The Publishing World: Kelly Mays. -- 2. Education, Literacy, and the Victorian Reader: Jonathan Rose. -- 3. Money, The Economy, and Social Classes: Regenia Gagnier. -- 4. Victorian Psychology: Athena Vretttos. -- 5. Empire, Race, and the Victorian Novel: Deirdre David. -- 6. The Victorian Novel and Religion: Hilary Fraser. -- 7. Scientific Ascendancy: John Kucich. -- 8. Technology and Information: Accelerating Developments: Christopher Keep. -- 9. Laws, The Legal World, and Politics: John Reed. -- 10. Geneer, Politics, and Women's Rights: Hilary Schor. -- 11. The Other Arts: Victorian Visual Culture: Jeffrey Spear. -- 12. Imagined Audiences: The Novelist and the Stage: Reneta Kobetts-Miller. -- Part II: Forms of the Victorian Novel: -- 13. Newgate Novel to Detective Fiction: F.S. Scjhwarzbach. -- 14. The Historical Novel: John Bowen. -- 15. The Sensation Novel: Winifred Hughes. -- 16. The Bildungsroman: John R. Maynard. -- 17. The Gothic Romance in the Victorian Period: Cannon Schmitt. -- 18. The Provencial or Regional Novel: Ian Duncan. -- 19. Industrial and 'Condition-of-England's Novels: James Richard Simmons. -- 20. Children's Fiction: Lewis Roberts. -- 21. Victorian Science Fiction: Patrick Brantlinger. -- Part III: Victorian and Modern Theories of the Novel and the Reception of Novels and Novelists Then and Now: -- 22. The Receptions of Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy: Elizabeth Langland. -- 23. Victorian Theories of the Novel: Joseph Childers. -- 24. Modern and Postmodern Theories of Prose Fiction: Audrey Jaffe. -- 25. The Afterlife of the Victorian Novel: Novels about Novels: Anne Humpherys. -- 26. The Victorian Novel in Film and Television: Jocelyn Marsh.

• Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels
• private rod marital violence sensation and the law in Victorian Britain
• Victorian fiction writers publishers readers
• Encounters in the Victorian press editors authors readers
• Beyond sensation Mary Elizabeth Braddon in context
• Rethinking Victorian culture
• concise companion to the Victorian novel
• Sir Charles Grandison the compleat conduct book
• Elizabethan world picture
• Laurence Olivier as King Lear
• Repression in Victorian fiction Charlotte Bronte George Eliot and Charles Dickens
• Cambridge companion to the Victorian novel
• Key concepts in Victorian literature
• literature of terror a history of gothic fictions from 1765 to the present day The gothic tradition
• Eighteenth century writers in their world a mighty maze
• Modern genre theory
• Elizabeth I
• Literary theory a guide for the perplexed
• Shakespeares tragedies violation and identity
• Confessional subjects revelations of gender and power in Victorian literature and culture
• Literature culture and society
• Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
• companion to the gothic
• Key concepts in postcolonial literature
• Renaissance drama
• Literature and film a guide to the theory and practice of film adaptation
• Preaching pity Dickens Gaskell and sentimentalism in Victorian culture
• Cambridge companion to English literature 1500 1600
• Twentieth century interpretations of Miss Lonelyhearts a collection of critical essays
• Augustan vision
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• theatre of the absurd
• new woman in fiction and in fact fin de siecle feminisms
• industrial reformation of English fiction social discourse and narrative form 1832 1867
• Victorian Gothic literary and cultural manifestations in the nineteenth century
• Writing and the English Renaissance
• Shakespeare
• Beyond egotism the fiction of James Joyce Virginia Woolf and D H Lawrence
• Elizabeth apprenticeship
• reading of Gullivers travels
• Victorian women writers and the woman question
• great tradition George Eliot Henry James Joseph Conrad
• literature of terror a history of gothic fictions from 1765 to the present day The modern gothic
• sensation novel from The woman in white to The moonstone
• Literary theory the basics
• language of Wordsworth and Coleridge
• Victorian novel
• Cambridge companion to Milton
• Gothic horror a readers guide from Poe to King and beyond
• Victorian publishing and Mrs Gaskells work
• reluctant pilgrim Defoes emblematic method and quest for form in Robinson Crusoe
• Romanticism
• Studying the novel
• Intertextuality
• Queenship and political discourse in the Elizabethan realms
• Routledge anthology of Renaissance drama
• companion to literature and film
• Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse five
• Walking the Victorian streets women representation and the city
• Novels of the eighteen forties
• Nineteenth century Britain
• Slaughterhouse five or The childrens crusade a duty dance with death
• Key concepts in literary theory
• literary language of Shakespeare
• Angela Carter the rational glass
• Flesh and the mirror essays on the art of Angela Carter
• Robinson Crusoe an authoritative text contexts criticism
• Criticism and literary theory 1890 to the present
• Cambridge companion to English literature 1650 1740
• Gothic fiction
• poorhouse fugitives self taught poets and poetry in Victorian Britain
• Gender roles and sexuality in Victorian literature
• new woman fiction and feminism at the fin de siecle
• Beginning theory an introduction to literary and cultural theory
• introduction to literature criticism and theory
• rise of the Gothic novel
• English Renaissance 1500 1620
• Victorian novelist social problems and social change
• Conferencing Room Remote Control
• Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
• Angela Carter writing from the front line
• Defoes art of fiction Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders Colonel Jack & Roxana
• Critics on Virginia Woolf readings in literary criticism
• Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton North and south
• Studying poetry
• Dramatic discourse dialogue as interaction in plays
• Romantics rebels and reactionaries English literature and its background 1760 1830
• critical and cultural theory reader
• deluge British society and the First World War
• Womens gothic from Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley
• Literary terms and criticism
• Virginia Woolf
• Gothic
• Romanticism an Oxford guide
• English fiction of the Victorian period 1830 1890
• feminist reader essays in gender and the politics of literary criticism
• improper feminine the womens sensation novel and the new woman writing
• English fiction of the Romantic period 1789 1830
• mirror and the lamp romantic theory and the critical tradition
• Cambridge introduction to narrative