Reading the Victorian Novel

Annette Federico is Professor of English at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. She is the author of five books including Engagements with Close Reading (Routledge, 2016) and Charles Dickens: But for you, dear stranger (2022). She is also the editor of two collections of critical essays, Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years (2009) and My Victorian Novel: Critical Essays in the Personal Voice (2020).