The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

About this book

In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens the Bronts George Eliot and other canonical writers as well as that of such writers as Olive Schreiner Wilkie Collins and H. Rider Haggard whose work has recently attracted new attention from scholars and students. Contributors engage with topics such as industrial culture religion and science and the broader issues of the politics of gender sexuality and race. The Companion includes a chronology and a comprehensive Guide to Further Reading.