Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture

Herbert F. Tucker is Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, where he is also Associate Editor of New Literary History. His previous publications include Browning's Beginnings: The Art of Disclosure (1980), Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism (1988) and Critical Essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson (1993).

• Introduction xNotes on Contributors xivPart One History in Focus1 1832 3Lawrence Poston2 1848 19Antony H. Harrison3 1870 35Linda K. Hughes4 1897 51Stephen ArataPart Two Passages of Life5 Growing Up: Childhood 69Claudia Nelson6 Moving Out: Adolescence 82Chris R. Vanden Bossche7 Growing Old: Age 97Teresa Mangum8 Passing On: Death 110Gerhard Joseph and Herbert F. Tucker9 Victorian Sexualities 125James Eli Adams Copyrighted MaterialPart Three Walks of Life10 Clerical 141Christine L. Krueger11 Legal 155Simon Petch12 Medical 170Lawrence Rothfield13 Military 183John R. Reed14 Educational 194Thomas William Heyck15 Administrative 212Robert Newsom16 Financial 225Christina Crosby17 Industrial 244Herbert Sussman18 Commercial 258Jennifer Wicke19 Spectacle 276Joss Marsh20 Publishing 289Richard D. AltickPart Four Kinds of Writing21 Poetry 307E. Warwick Slinn22 Fiction 323Hilary Schor23 Drama 339Alan Fischler24 Life Writing 356Timothy Peltason25 Sage Writing 373Linda H. PetersonNotes Contents Contributors ix26 Literary Criticism 388David E. Latané, JrPart Five Borders27 Under Victorian Skins: The Bodies Beneath 407Helena Michie28 On the Parapets of Privacy 425Karen Chase and Michael Levenson29 “Then on the Shore of the Wide World”: The Victorian Nation and its Others 438James BuzardGeneral Subject Index 456Index of Victorian Works 481

"Each of the very varied contributions - there are 29 of them in all - is well equipped with exhaustive and up-to-date bibliographies, invaluable for further studies. There is also an excellent index. Altogether, therefore, this is an admirable and enduring book, which should certainly be added to the reference departments of all self-respecting university libraries - and a great many civic and municipal libraries, as well." Languages and Literature"This book has been planned to meet both short-term and long-range needs. It is a reference work for consultation. " The Victorian Newsletter"...Tucker's Companion, with its extensive range of topics (some truly original and rarely dealt with in similar books), its well-documented essays, and constant degree of serious scholarship, apears indeed as an extremely valuable tool for students and scholars alike, and a major contribution to Victorian criticism." The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association