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The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked. Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: BEGINNINGS -- 1. The Early 19th-Century English Novel, 1820-1836 -- 2. New Histories of English Literature and the Rise of the Novel, 1835-1859 -- 3. Genre, Criticism, and the Early Victorian Novel -- PART II: PUBLISHING, READING, REVIEWING, QUOTING, CENSORING -- 4. Publishing the Victorian Novel -- 5. The Victorian Novel and Its Readers -- 6. The Victorian Novel and the Reviews -- 7. The Victorian Novel and the OED -- 8. The Novel and Censorship in Late-Victorian England -- PART III: THE VICTORIAN NOVEL ELSEWHERE -- 9. Victorian Novels in France -- 10. Victorian Literature and Russian Culture: Translation, Reception, Influence, Affinity -- 11. The Victorian Novel and America -- 12. Colonial India and Victorian Storytelling -- PART IV: TECHNOLOGIES: COMMUNICATION, TRAVEL , VISUALITY -- 13. The Victorian Novel and Communication Networks -- 14. Technologies of Travel and the Victorian Novel -- 15. Victorian Photography and the Novel -- PART V: THE MIDDLE -- 16. Novels of the 1860s -- PART VI: COMMERCE, WORK, PROFESSIONS, STATUS -- 17. Industrialism and the Victorian Novel -- 18. The Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Money: Max Weber, Silas Marner, and the Victorian Novel -- 19. The Victorian Novel and the Professions -- 20. Gentleman's Latin, Lady's Greek -- PART VII: THE NOVEL AND OTHER DISCIPLINES -- 21. The Victorian Novel and Science -- 22. The Victorian Novel and Medicine -- 23. Naturalizing the Mind in the Victorian Novel: Consciousness in Wilkie Collins's Poor Miss Finch and Thomas Hardy's Woodlanders-Two Case Studies -- 24. The Victorian Novel and the Law -- 25. The Novel and Religion: Catholicism and Victorian Women's Novels -- 26. The Victorian Novel and Horticulture -- PART VIII: DRAMA, POETRY, AND CRITICISM.
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