The Victorian Novel.

Intro -- The Victorian Novel -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- How to Use This Book -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Context 1: Time Maps -- Prelude: 1830-1846 -- Revolutions: 1847-1849 -- Equipoise: 1850-1870 -- Turning the Tide: 1871-1880 -- The Last Decades: 1881-1901 -- Context 2: Changing Perspectives -- 'Things As They Are' -- History -- Biography -- Religion and Morals -- Evolution -- Detectives -- Context 3: Foundations -- The Truth of the Heart -- Affairs of the Heart(h) -- Ways of Seeing -- The Modality of Melodrama -- The White Rabbit's Watch -- Key Authors -- William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82) -- Walter Besant (1836-1910) -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon [later Maxwell] (1835-1915) -- Charlotte Brontë, 'Currer Bell' (1816-55), Emily [Jane] Brontë, 'Ellis Bell' (1818-48), Anne Brontë, 'Acton Bell' (1820-49) -- Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920) -- [William] Wilkie Collins (1824-89) -- Marie [Isabel Marie] Corelli [née Mills, later Mackay] (1855-1924) -- Charles [John Huffam] Dickens (1812-70) -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) -- [Sir] Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) -- George Eliot [née Mary Anne/Marian Evans] (1819-80) -- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [née Stevenson] (1810-65) -- George [Robert] Gissing (1857-1903) -- [Sir] H[enry] Rider Haggard (1856-1925) -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- G[eorge] P[ayne] R[ainsford] James (1801-60) -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Douglas [William] Jerrold (1803-57) -- Geraldine E[ndsor] Jewsbury (1812-80) -- Charles Kingsley (1819-75) -- [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1830-76) -- [Joseph Thomas] Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton [until 1843, Edward George Earle Lytton] (1803-73) -- George Macdonald (1824-1905) -- Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) -- Harriet Martineau (1802-76) -- George Meredith (1828-1909) -- George [Augustus] Moore (1852-1933).

Margaret Oliphant [née Wilson] (1828-97) -- Ouida [Marie Louise de la Ramée] (1839-1908) -- Charles Reade (1814-84) -- G[eorge] W[illiam] M[acarthur] Reynolds (1814-79) -- James Malcolm Rymer (1803?-84) -- Robert Louis [Lewis Balfour] Stevenson (1850-94) -- R[obert] S[mith] Surtees (1805-64) -- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63) -- Anthony Trollope (1815-82) -- Mrs T[homas] Humphry Ward [née Mary Augusta Arnold] (1851-1920) -- H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) -- [William Hale White] Mark Rutherford (1831-1913) -- Ellen Wood [Mrs Henry Wood, née Ellen Price] (1814-87) -- Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) -- Key Texts -- Major Presences -- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to the Next (Part I, 1678 -- Part II, 1684) -- Sir Walter Scott, Waverley -- or, 'Tis Sixty years Since (1814) -- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein -- or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 -- revised 1831) -- Pierce Egan, Sr, Life in London (1820-1) -- Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833-4) -- Main Texts -- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1837-8) -- G. W. M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London (1844-6) -- Geraldine Jewsbury, Zoe (1845) -- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) -- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847) -- W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847-8) -- W. M. Thackeray, Pendennis (1848-50) -- Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1852-3) -- Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853) -- Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1854-5) -- Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (1857) -- George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859) -- Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860) -- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860-1) -- Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood, East Lynne (1861) -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (1861-2) -- Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies (1863) -- Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Through the Looking Glass (1871).

Ouida [Marie Louise de la Ramée], Under Two Flags (1867) -- R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Lorna Doone (1869) -- George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-2) -- Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now (1874-5) -- George Meredith, The Egoist (1879) -- Henry James, Portrait of a Lady (1881) -- [Olive Schreiner] Ralph Iron, The Story of an African Farm (1883) -- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) -- Sir Henry Rider Haggard, She (1887) -- George Gissing, New Grub Street (1891) -- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) -- George Moore, Esther Waters (1894) -- Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan (1895) -- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) -- Arthur Morrison, A Child of the Jago (1896) -- Bram [Abraham] Stoker, Dracula (1897) -- Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1902) -- Topics -- Children's Novels -- Colonial Novels -- Historical Novels -- Illustrated Novels -- Irish Novels -- 'New Woman' Novels -- Publishing Formats -- Regional Novels -- Religious Novels -- Science, Utopias and Dystopias -- Sensation Novels -- Social Problem Novels -- The Supernatural -- Working-class Novels -- Further Reading -- Index.

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