Table of Contents

Juliet John: Introduction
Part I: Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology
Rae Greiner: 1. The Victorian Subject: Thackeray s Wartime Subjects
Trev Broughton: 2. Life-Writing and the Victorians
Josephine Guy: 3. Politics and the Literary
Ian Haywood: 4. The Literature of Chartism
Lauren Goodlad: 5. Liberalism and Literature
Ayse Celikkol: 6. Globalization and Economics
Kathleen Blake: 7. Political Economy
Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn: 8. The Victorians, Sex and Gender
Teresa Mangum: 9. The New Woman and Her Ageing Other
Kate Flint: 10. Unspeakable Desires: We Other Victorians
Holly Furneaux: 11. Victorian Masculinities, or Military Men of Feeling: Domesticity, Militarism, and Manly Sensibility
Patrick Brantlinger: 12. Empire, Place and the Victorians
John Kucich: 13. Organic Imperialism: Fictions of Progressive Social Order at the Colonial Periphery
Lara Kriegel: 14. The Strange Career of Fair Play, or, Warfare and Gamesmanship in the Time of Victoria
Melissa Free: 15. British Women Wanted: Gender, Genre, and South African Settlement
Alex Murray: 16. The London Sunday Faded Slow : Time to Spend in the Victorian City
Part II - Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief
Emma Mason: 17. Religion, The Bible and Literature in the Victorian Age
James Eli Adams: 18. Religion and Sexuality
Matthew Bradley: 19.Religion and the Canon
Mark Knight: 20. Religion and Education
Alice Jenkins: 21. Beyond Two Cultures: Science, Literature and Disciplinary Boundaries
Sally Shuttleworth: 22. Science and Periodicals
Amy King: 23. Victorian Natural Science and the Seashore
Elizabeth Meadows and Jay Clayton: 24. You ve Got Mail : Technologies of Communication in Victorian Literature
Part III Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures
Robert L. Patten: 25. The New Cultural Marketplace: Victorian Publishing and Reading Practices
Joanne Shattock: 26. Literature and the Expansion of the Press
John Plotz: 27. Materiality in Theory: What to Make of Victorian Things
John Plunkett: 28. Celebrity Culture
Jonah Siegel: 29. Victorian Aesthetics
Carolyn Burdett: 30. Emotions
Ruth Livesey: 31. Aestheticism and the Politics of Pleasure
Julia Thomas: 32. Illustrations and the Victorian Novel
Hilary Fraser: 33. Art and the Literary
Kate Newey: 34. Victorian Theatre: Research Problems and Progress
Kerry Powell: 35. Victorian Theatre: Power and the Politics of Gender
Jim Davis: 36. Melodrama on and Off the Stage
Gail Marshall: 37. Henry James s Houses: Domesticity and Performativity

About the Author

Juliet John is Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on Victorian literature and culture. Her books include Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback 2003), Dickens and Mass Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback 2013) and most recently, Reading and the
Victorians (Ashgate, 2015), which she co-edited with Matthew Bradley. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature.

Reviews

All essays have good selective bibliographies; all provide a good, modern resource for research.
*Jeremy Tambling, Modern Language Review*

For the excellence of its essays and the timeliness of its topics, this is an exceptionally strong collection.
*Pamela K. Gilbert, Victorian Studies*