WILLIAM BAKER is Professor, Department of English, and Professor, University Libraries, at Northern Illinois University. He is the Editor of George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, as well as the author or editor of such volumes as Harold Pinter (1973), George Eliot and Judaism (1975), The Libraries of George Eliot and G. H. Lewes (1981), F.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis: An Annotated Bibliography (1989), The Early History of the London Library (1992), The Letters of George Henry Lewes (1995, 1999), Literary Theories: A Case Study in Critical Performance (1996), and The Letters of Wilkie Collins (1999).KENNETH WOMACK is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Altoona. In addition to coauthoring Recent Work in Critical Theory, 1989-1995: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1996) and Twentieth-Century Bibliography and Textual Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 2000), and coediting the Dictionary of Literary Biography's three-volume British Book Collectors and Bibliographers series (1997-1999), he has published numerous articles on twentieth-century British and American literature and film. He is editor of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, correspondent for the World Shakespeare Bibliography, and associate editor of George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies.

• Preface Victorian Literary Contexts The Victorian Novel Emerges, 1800-1840 by Ian Duncan Periodicals and Syndication by Graham Law Book Publishing and the Victorian Literary Marketplace by Peter L. Shillingsburg Victorian Illustrators and Illustration by Lynn Alexander Victorian Cultural Contexts The Nineteenth-Century Political Novel by Julian Wolfreys The Sociological Contexts of Victorian Fiction by M. Claire Loughlin Faith, Religion, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Nancy Cervetti Philosophy and the Victorian Literary Aesthetic by Martin Bidney Science and the Scientist in Victorian Fiction by Michael H. Whitworth Law and the Victorian Novel by Elizabeth F. Judge Intoxication and the Victorian Novel by Kathleen McCormack Victorian Genres Ghost and Hauntings in the Victorian Novel by Lucie J. Armitt The Victorian Gothic by Peter Kitson Victorian Detective Fiction by Lillian Nayder The Victorian Social Problem Novel by James G. Nelson The Victorian Sensation Novel by Helen Debenham Victorian Juvenilia by Christine Alexander Moving Pictures: Film and the Representation of Victorian Fictions by Todd F. Davis Major Authors of the Victorian Era Religion in the Novels of Charlotte and Anne BronTE by Marianne ThorMAhlen Victorian Professionalism and Charlotte BronTE's Villette by Roger Poole Charles Dickens by K.J. Fielding George Eliot: Critical Responses to Daniel Deronda by Nancy Henry George Eliot's Reading Revolution and the Mythical School of Criticism by William R. McKelvy Thomas Hardy by Edward Neill The Vanities of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair by Juliet McMaster Anthony Trollope and "Classic Realism" by K.M. Newton George Meredith at the Crossways by Margaret Harris "Not Burying the One Talent": Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Duty by Barbara Quinn Schmidt Wilkie Collins's Challenges to Pre-Raphaelite Gender Constructs by Sophia Andres Contemporary Critical Approaches to the Victorian Novel Postcolonial Readings by Roslyn Jolly Feminist Criticism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Eileen Gillooly Otherness and Identity in the Victorian Novel by Michael Galchinsky Selected Bibliography Index