The Victorian Novel

This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing theVictorian novel. * Provides time maps and overviews of historical and socialcontexts. * Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel andhistorical, religious and bibliographic writing. * Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors,including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and RobertLouis Stevenson. * Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among themCharlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) and BramStoker's Dracula (1897), as well as key presences,such as John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (Pt 1,1676, Pt 2, 1684). * Also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation,the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.