The Victorian Novel

The editor describes the guide accurately as providing “examples of the significant themes of that criticism, contextualized in an historical narrative, and placed in continuing debates in the field”. While aimed primarily at English students, this book is a testament to the shifts and changes in Victorian literature and would also be a useful companion to any historian of the period. Focusing on the growth of literature in the nineteenth century it looks at how the Victorian period became the “age of the novel”. Yet, while this growth took place it did not mean that fiction was necessarily accepted as...