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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Editors’ Preface V
- Contents VII
- 0. Metamorphoses in English Culture and the Novel, 1830–1900: An Introduction 1
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Part I: Systematic Questions
- 1. Science and the Victorian Novel 23
- 2. Remediating Nineteenth-Century Narrative 51
- 3. God on the Wane? The Victorian Novel and Religion 71
- 4. Genres and Poetology: The Novel and the Way towards Aesthetic Self-Consciousness 87
- 5. The Art of Novel Writing: Victorian Theories 107
- 6. Victorian Gender Relations and the Novel 121
- 7. Empire – Economy – Materiality 149
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Part II: Close Readings
- 8. Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834) 173
- 9. Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) 189
- 10. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) 205
- 11. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847) 221
- 12. Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey (1847) 237
- 13. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847–1848) 253
- 14. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848) 273
- 15. Charles Kingsley, Yeast: A Problem (1851) 289
- 16. Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853) 305
- 17. Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (1858) 321
- 18. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) 337
- 19. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) 351
- 20. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868) 367
- 21. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (1871) 381
- 22. George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871–1872; 1874) 397
- 23. George Meredith, The Egoist (1879) 415
- 24. Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean (1885) 431
- 25. Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) 445
- 26. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) 461
- 27. Sarah Grand, The Heavenly Twins (1893) 479
- 28. George Moore, Esther Waters (1894) 495
- 29. Mona Caird, The Daughters of Danaus (1894) 511
- 30. Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895) 529
- 31. H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) 547
- 32. Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) 565
- 33. Henry James, What Maisie Knew (1897) 581
- 34. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900) 597
- 35. Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1900–1901) 613
- 36. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903) 629
- Index of Subjects 645
- Index of Names 659
- List of Contributors 675
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Editors’ Preface V
- Contents VII
- 0. Metamorphoses in English Culture and the Novel, 1830–1900: An Introduction 1
-
Part I: Systematic Questions
- 1. Science and the Victorian Novel 23
- 2. Remediating Nineteenth-Century Narrative 51
- 3. God on the Wane? The Victorian Novel and Religion 71
- 4. Genres and Poetology: The Novel and the Way towards Aesthetic Self-Consciousness 87
- 5. The Art of Novel Writing: Victorian Theories 107
- 6. Victorian Gender Relations and the Novel 121
- 7. Empire – Economy – Materiality 149
-
Part II: Close Readings
- 8. Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834) 173
- 9. Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) 189
- 10. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) 205
- 11. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847) 221
- 12. Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey (1847) 237
- 13. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847–1848) 253
- 14. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848) 273
- 15. Charles Kingsley, Yeast: A Problem (1851) 289
- 16. Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853) 305
- 17. Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (1858) 321
- 18. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) 337
- 19. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) 351
- 20. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868) 367
- 21. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (1871) 381
- 22. George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871–1872; 1874) 397
- 23. George Meredith, The Egoist (1879) 415
- 24. Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean (1885) 431
- 25. Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) 445
- 26. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) 461
- 27. Sarah Grand, The Heavenly Twins (1893) 479
- 28. George Moore, Esther Waters (1894) 495
- 29. Mona Caird, The Daughters of Danaus (1894) 511
- 30. Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895) 529
- 31. H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) 547
- 32. Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) 565
- 33. Henry James, What Maisie Knew (1897) 581
- 34. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900) 597
- 35. Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1900–1901) 613
- 36. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903) 629
- Index of Subjects 645
- Index of Names 659
- List of Contributors 675