ALICE JENKINS is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is the co-editor (with Juliet John) of Rethinking Victorian Culture (forthcoming). She has published articles on literature and the history of science and is completing a study of spatial discourse in early nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing. - JULIET JOHN is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Salford. She is author of Dicken's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture, editor of Cult Criminals: the Newgate Novels and co-editor (with Alice Jenkins) of Rethinking Victorian Culture. AE(00): Foreword by JOHN SUTHERLAND

• Foreword; J.Sutherland List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: A.Jenkins and J.John Victorian Realistic Prose and Sentimentality: P.Davis Having the Whip-hand in Middlemarch ; D.Karlin Two Kinds of Clothing: Sartor Resartus and Great Expectations ; B.Beatty Re-reading G.W.Reynolds' the Mysteries of London ; T.Thomas The State of Dracula : Bureaucracy and the Vampire; G.Day The Godhead Regendered in Victorian Children's Literature; J.M. Labbe Alice : Reflections and Relativities; M.Irwin Place. Identity and Born in Exile ; R.Pite Stages of Sand and Blood: the Performance of Gendered Subjectivity in Olive Schreiner's Colonial Allegories; S.McCracken Sexual Ethics in Fiction by Thomas Hardy and the New Woman Writers; J.Larson Don Pickwick: Dickens and the Transformations of Cervantes; A.Easson Using the Victorians: the Victorian Age in Contemporary Fiction; R.Gilmour Women, Spiritualism and Depth Psychology in Michèle Robert's Victorian Novel; S.Rowland Index

'The confident pluralism of this collection presents Victorian fiction to a new generation of readers.' - Dinah Birch, Times Literary Supplement