General Introduction, Anne Longmuir and Lee Behlman
Part 1. Victorian Poetry and Form
Introduction
1. Rereading Victorian Poetry, Isobel Armstrong
2. The Fix of Form: an Open Letter, Herbert F. Tucker
3. Physiological Poetics; Patmore, Hopkins and the Uncertain Body of Victorian Poetry, Jason R. Rudy
4. Victorian Poetry and Form, Charles LaPorte
Part 2. Women Poets and the Poetess Tradition
Introduction
5. Canonization through Dispossession: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Pythian Shriek, Tricia Lootens
6. Rewriting a History of the Lyre: Letitia Landon, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the (Re)construction of the Nineteenth-Century Woman Poet, Linda H. Peterson
7. Atheist Prophecy: Mathilde Blinde, Constance Naden, and the Victorian Poetess, Charles LaPorte
8. Women Poets and the Poetess Tradition, Linda K. Hughes
Part 3. Realism and Photography
Introduction
9. What is Real in Realism?, Nancy Armstrong
10. Information Unveiled, Richard Menke
11. Composing the Novel Body: Re-Membering the Body and the Text in Little Dorrit, Daniel Novak
12. Realism and Photography, Jennifer Green-Lewis
Part 4. Genre Fiction and the Sensational
Introduction
13. Marketing Affect: The Nineteenth-Century Sensation Novel, Ann Cvetkovich
14. The Abhuman; Chaotic Bodies, Kelly Hurley
15. Toward a Sensational Theory of Criticism; Sensation fiction Theorizes Masochism, Anna Maria Jones
16. Genre fiction and the Sensational, Pamela K. Gilbert
Part 5. Religion and Literature
Introduction
17. Christina Rossetti and the Doctrine of Reserve, Emma Mason
18. Orthodox Narratives of Literary Sacralization, William R. McKelvy
19. Sacrifice and the Sufferings of the Substitute: Dickens and the Atonement Controversy of the 1850s, Jan-Melissa Schramm
20. Religion and Literature, Mark Knight
Part 6. Darwin and Victorian Culture
Introduction
21. The Remnant of the Mythical; Fit and Misfitting: Anthropomorphism and the Natural Order, Gillian Beer
22. Dickens and Darwin, George Levine
23. Conversation on Creation, James Secord
24. Darwinian Science and Victorian Respectability, Gowan Dawson
25. Darwin and Victorian Culture, Jonathan Smith
Part 7. Psychology and Literature
Introduction
26. Villette: the Surveillance of a Sleepless Eye, Sally Shuttleworth
27. The Discourse of Physiology in General Biology, Rick Rylance
28. The Psyche in Pain; Dream and trance: Gaskell's North and South as a Condition of Consciousness Novel, Jill Matus
29. Psychology and Literature, Michael Davis
Part 8. Gender, Sexuality, Domesticity
Introduction
30. The Female Relations of Victorian England, Sharon Marcus
31. The Curious Princess, the Novel, and the Law, Hilary M. Schor
32. Revelation in the Divorce Court, Deborah Cohen
33. Gender, Sexuality, Domesticity, Melissa Valiska Gregory
Part 9. Disinterestedness and Liberalism
Introduction
34. Forms of Detachment, Amanda Anderson
35. Is there a Pastor in the House? Sanitary Reform and Governing Agency in Dickens's Midcentury Fiction, Lauren M. E. Goodlad
36. A Frame of Mind: Signature Liberalism at the Fortnightly Review, Elaine Hadley
37. Disinterestedness and Liberalism, Daniel S. Malachuk
Part 10. Imperialism and Literature in the Age of Colonialism
Introduction
38. Introduction to Kim, Edward Said
39. Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914, Patrick Brantlinger
40. Missionary men and Morant Bay 1859-1866, Catherine Hall
41. Fantasy and Ideology, John Kucich
42. Imperialism and Literature in the Age of Colonialism, Muireann O'Cinneide
Part 11. Economics, the Market, and Victorian Culture
Introduction
43. Daniel Deronda and the Afterlife of Ownership, Jeff Nunokawa
44. The Bioeconomics of Our Mutual Friend, Catherine Gallagher
45. Literary Appropriations, Mary Poovey
46. Economics, the Market, and Victorian Culture, Jill Rappoport
Part 12. Print Culture
Introduction
47. The Advantage of Fiction: the Novel and the Success of the Victorian Periodical, Laurel Brake
48. The Age of Newspapers, Matthew Rubery
49. The Book as Go-Between: Domestic Service and Forced Reading, Leah Price
50. Print Culture, Jennifer Phegley
