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