The Cambridge Companion to the victorian novel

Contents: Introduction; The victorian novel and its readers; The business of Victorian publishing; The aesthetics to the victorian novel :form, subjectivity, ideology; Industrial culture and the victorian novel; Gender and the victorian novel; sexuality and the victorian novel; RAce and the victorian novel; Detection in the victorian novel; Sensation and the fantastic in the victorian novel; Intellectual debate and the victorian novel: religion, science, and the professional; Dickens, Melville and the tale of two countries.