The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Beginnings.
- The Early Nineteenth-Century English Novel, 1820-1836
- New Histories of English Literature and the Rise of the Novel, 1835-1859
- Genre, Criticism and the Early Victorian Novel
- Publishing, Reading, Reviewing, Quoting, Censoring.
- Publishing the Victorian Novel
- The Victorian Novel and Its Readers
- The Victorian Novel and the Reviews
- The Victorian Novel and the OED
- The Novel and Censorship in Late-Victorian England
- The Victorian Novel Elsewhere.
- Victorian Novels in France
- Victorian Literature and Russian Culture: Translation, Reception, Influence, Affinity
- The Victorian Novel and America
- Colonial India and Victorian Storytelling
- Technologies: Communication, Travel, Visual
- The Victorian Novel and Communication Networks
- Technologies of Travel and the Victorian Novel
- Victorian Photography and the Novel
- The Middle.
- Novels of the 1860s
- Commerce, Work, Professions.
- Industrialism and the Victorian Novel
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Money: Max Weber, Silas Marner, and the Victorian Novel
- The Novel and the Professions
- Gentleman's Latin, Lady's Greek
- The Novel and Other Disciplines.
- The Victorian Novel and Science
- The Victorian Novel and Medicine
- Naturalizing the Mind in the Victorian Novel: Consciousness in Wilkie Collins's Poor Miss Finch and Thomas Hardy's Woodlanders Two Case Studies
- The Victorian Novel and the Law
- The Novel and Religion: Catholicism and Victorian Women's Novels
- The Victorian Novel and Horticulture
- The Victorian Novel and Theater
- Poetry and Criticism.
- Verse Versus the Novel
- Poetic Allusion and the Novel
- The Novelist as Critic
- Distinguishing the Victorian Novel.
- The Moral Scope of the English Bildungsroman
- Three Matters of Style
- Endings.
- The Novel, its Critics, and the University: A New Beginning?
- The Victorian Novel and the New Woman
- The Last Victorian Novel
- Slapstick Noir: The Secret Agent Works the Victorian Novel
- The Quest of the Silver Fleece, by W. E. B. Du Bois