Preface Introduction 1. Transition and Tradition: The Preoccupation with Ancestry in Victorian Writing, Sophie Gilmartin 2. The Major Silence: Autobiographies of Working Women in the Nineteenth-century, Carol Jenkins 3. Writing, Cultural Production and the Periodical Press in the Nineteenth-century, Laurel Brake 4. Engendering Vision in the Victorian Male Poet, Catherine Maxwell 5. Victorian Lucretius: Tennyson and the Problem of Scientific Romanticism, Patricia O'Neill 6. The Opium-eater as Criminal in Victorian Writing, Julian North 7. Obscure Recesses: Locating the Victorian Unconscious, Jenny Bourne Taylor 8. After the Play: Dreams of Drama and Death in the James Family, Frances Wilson 9. Visuality Codes and Texts: Charles Dickens's Pictures from Italy, Stephen Bann 10. John Ruskin and the Victorian Landscape, Phillip Mallett 11. A Life in Writing: Ruskin and the Uses of Suburbia, Dinah Birch 12. Figuring the Body in the Victorian Novel, J.B Bullen 13. The Victorian Novel as a Self-conscious Allusion, .Bernard Richards 14. Plotting the Victorians: Narrative, Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction, Kate Flint 15. Oscar Wilde at Centuries' End, Neil Sammells Notes on Contributors Select Bibliography Index
J. B. Bullen is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, UK.