The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xvi

• Introduction by Kate Flint
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• pp. 1-12

PART I - AUTHORS, READERS, AND PUBLISHERS

• 1 - Publishing and the materiality of the book by David Finkelstein
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• pp. 13-33

• 2 - Victorian reading by Leah Price
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• pp. 34-55

• 3 - Periodicals and reviewing by Hilary Fraser
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• pp. 56-76

PART II - WRITING VICTORIA’s ENGLAND

• 4 - The expansion of Britain by David Amigoni
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• pp. 77-101

• 5 - High Victorianism by Janice Carlisle
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• pp. 102-123

• 6 - The fin de siècle by Stephen Arata
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• pp. 124-148

PART III - MODES OF WRITING

• 7 - Lyric and the lyrical by Angela Leighton
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• pp. 149-171

• 8 - Epic by Herbert F. Tucker
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• pp. 172-192

• 9 - Melodrama by Carolyn Williams
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• pp. 193-219

• 10 - Sensation by Kate Flint
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• pp. 220-242

• 11 - Autobiography by Linda H. Peterson
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• pp. 243-264

• 12 - Comic and satirical by John Bowen
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• pp. 265-287

• 13 - Innovation and experiment by Jerome McGann
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• pp. 288-310

• 14 - Writing for children by Claudia Nelson
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• pp. 311-328

PART IV - MATTERS OF DEBATE

• 15 - Education by Dinah Birch
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• pp. 329-349

• 16 - Spirituality by Elisabeth Jay
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• pp. 350-369

• 17 - Material by Elaine Freedgood
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• pp. 370-387

• 18 - Economics and finance by Mary Poovey
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• pp. 388-404

• 19 - History by Andrew Sanders
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• pp. 405-421

• 20 - Sexuality by Sharon Marcus
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• pp. 422-443

• 21 - Aesthetics by Elizabeth Helsinger
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• pp. 444-465

• 22 - Science and literature by Gillian Beer
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• pp. 466-486

• 23 - Subjectivity, psychology, and the imagination by Helen Small
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• pp. 487-509

• 24 - Cityscapes by Deborah Epstein Nord
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• pp. 510-531

• 25 - The rural scene: Victorian literature and the natural world by Francis O’Gorman
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• pp. 532-549

• 26 - ‘The annihilation of space and time’: literature and technology by Clare Pettitt
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• pp. 550-572

PART V - SPACES OF WRITING

• 27 - Spaces of the nineteenth-century novel by Isobel Armstrong
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• pp. 573-597

• 28 - National and regional literatures by Sara L. Maurer
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• pp. 598-621

• 29 - Britain and Europe by Nicholas Dames
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• pp. 622-640

• 30 - Victorian empire by Pablo Mukherjee
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• pp. 641-661

• 31 - Writing about America by Deirdre David
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• pp. 662-682

PART VI - VICTORIAN AFTERLIVES

• 32 - 1900 and the début de siècle: poetry, drama, fiction by Joseph Bristow
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• pp. 683-711

• 33 - The future of Victorian literature by Jay Clayton
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• pp. 712-729

• Select bibliography
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• pp. 730-758

• Index
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• pp. 759-774