Contents

pp.：  1 – 9

Acknowledgements

pp.：  9 – 17

Textual Note

pp.：  17 – 21

Introduction

pp.：  21 – 23

The range of Victorian fiction

pp.：  23 – 24

Definition used in this book

pp.：  24 – 24

Outline of the book

pp.：  24 – 25

Difficulties of the term 'Victorian novel'

pp.：  24 – 24

The changing face of criticism

pp.：  24 – 24

Outline of chapter 1

pp.：  25 – 26

Outline of chapter 3

pp.：  26 – 27

Outline of chapter 2

pp.：  26 – 26

Outline of chapter 5

pp.：  27 – 27

Outline of chapter 6

pp.：  27 – 28

Outline of chapter 4

pp.：  27 – 27

Outline of chapter 7

pp.：  28 – 28

Outline of chapter 8

pp.：  28 – 28

Fiction and the law

pp.：  28 – 28

Outline of chapter 9

pp.：  28 – 29

Masculinity studies

pp.：  29 – 30

Feminism and the contemporary academy

pp.：  29 – 29

Canon revision in recent Victorian fiction studies

pp.：  30 – 31

Sensation fiction

pp.：  31 – 31

Gothic fiction

pp.：  31 – 32

New Woman fiction

pp.：  32 – 32

The Victorian novel' not 'Victorian novelists

pp.：  32 – 33

Popular fiction

pp.：  32 – 32

Chapter Notes

pp.：  33 – 34

The embeddedness of criticism

pp.：  33 – 33

Further Reading

pp.：  34 – 35

1 Early Criticism of the Victorian Novel from James Oliphant to David Cecil

pp.：  35 – 39

2 F. R. Leavis and The Great Tradition

pp.：  39 – 68

3 Feminism and the Victorian Novel in the 1970s

pp.：  68 – 88

4 Realism

pp.：  88 – 116

5 Social-problem Fiction: Historicism and Feminism

pp.：  116 – 171

6 Language and Form

pp.：  171 – 218

7 Science and the Victorian Novel

pp.：  218 – 252

8 The History of the Book

pp.：  252 – 283

9 Postcolonial Readings

pp.：  283 – 328

Index

pp.：  328 – 357

LastPages

pp.：  357 – 370