Introduction.

Notes on Contributors.

Part I: Historical Contexts and Cultural Issues.

Part II: Forms of the Victorian Novel.

Part III: Victorian and Modern Theories of the Novel and the
Reception of Novels and Novelists Then and Now.

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Reference Reviews

Patrick Brantlinger is Rudy Professor of English at Indiana
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William B. Thesing is Professor of English at the
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