Rereading Victorian Fiction

BERNARD BEATTY Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Liverpool UniversityPHILIP DAVIS Reader in the English Department at the University of LiverpoolGARY DAY Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at DeMontfort University, BedfordANGUS EASSON Professor of English and Head of Department at the University of SalfordROBIN GILMOUR Reader in English at the University of AberdeenMICHAEL IRWIN Professor of English Literature, University of KentDANIEL KARLIN Professor of English, University College LondonJACQUELINE M. LABBE Reader in Nineteenth-Century Poetry, University of WarwickJIL LARSON Associate Professor of English, Western Michigan UniversitySCOTT McCRACKEN Senior Lecturer in English, University of SalfordRALPH PITE Senior Lecturer in English, University of LiverpoolSUSAN ROWLAND Senior Lecturer in English at the University of GreenwichTREFOR THOMAS Research Associate in the Centre for North-West Regional Studies based in the Department of History, Manchester Metropolitan University

• 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