A Concise Companion to the Victorian NovelFrancis O'Gorman This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900.
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 The sun and moon were made to give them light Empire in the Victorian Novel | 4 |
2 Seeing is believing? Visuality and Victorian Fiction | 25 |
3 The boundaries of social intercourse Class in the Victorian Novel | 47 |
4 Legal subjects legal objects The Law and Victorian Fiction | 71 |
5 The withering of the individual Psychology in the Victorian Novel | 91 |
6 Telling of my weekly doings The Material Culture of the Victorian Novel | 113 |
7 Farewell poetry and aerial flights The Function of the Author and Victorian Fiction | 134 |
8 Everywhere and nowhere Sexuality in Victorian Fiction | 156 |
9 One of the larger lost Continents Religion in the Victorian Novel | 180 |
10 The difference between human beings Biology in the Victorian Novel | 202 |
11 One great confederation? Europe in the Victorian Novel | 232 |
12 A long deep sob of that mysterious wondrous happiness that is one with pain Emotion in the Victorian Novel | 253 |
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