Victorian literature has been an important critical focus for feminist scholarship, but feminist criticism has also established its own canon of central authors-most frequently focusing on the rich accomplishments of Emily Bront', Charlotte Bront', and George Eliot, and the disappointments of Charles Dickens and Henry James. This collection of essays expands the canon to include works not frequently accorded attention either in literary criticism broadly conceived, or in feminist literary scholarship.
The book includes essays on writers from the 1840s to the 1890s, investigating some...