This is an eclectic collection of essays from a group of international scholars tackling various subjects on Victorian literature-from studies of specific authors such Charles Dickens' early and later works, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and novels by Thomas Hardy to more general discussions, such as the depictions of women in Victorian novels.

Edited by Laurence W. Mazzeno

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Victorian Literature: A Cultural and Historical Overview, Jennifer Cadwallader
Chapter 2: "The velocity of the novel-producing apparatus" and "large loose baggy monsters": The Changing Reputation of the Victorian Novel, Tamara Sylvia Wagner
Chapter 3: Popular Fiction and Social Protest: Dickens in the 1830s, Chris Louttit
Chapter 4: Faith and Doubt: Tennyson and Other Victorian Poets, Saverio Tomaiuolo
Chapter 5: Victorian Romanticism: The Brontë Sisters, Thomas Carlyle, and the Persistence of Memory, Laura Dabundo
Chapter 6: Overt and Covert Narrative Structure: A Reconsideration of Jane Eyre, Katherine Saunders Nash
Chapter 7: What is a Social Problem Novel?, Barbara Leckie
Chapter 8: Matrimony, Property, and the "Woman Question" in Anne Brontë and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Amy J. Robinson
Chapter 9: A "World of Its Own Creation": Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and the New Paradigm for Art, David Latham
Chapter 10: Matthew Arnold as a Critic: A Twenty-First Century Perspective, Clinton Machann
Chapter 11: Great Expectations, Memories, and Hopes Dashed: Dickens and Late Style, Grace Moore
Chapter 12: Tragedy and Ecology in the Later Novels of Thomas Hardy, Ronald D. Morrison
Further Reading
Contributors