The Cambridge history of Victorian literature

Introduction / Kate Flint

Part I. Authors, Readers, and Publishers: 1. Publishing and the materiality of the book / David Finkelstein; 2. Victorian reading / Leah Price; 3. Periodicals and reviewing / Hilary Fraser

Part II. Writing Victoria's England: 4. The expansion of Britain / David Amigoni; 5. High Victorianism / Janice Carlisle; 6. The Fin-de-Siècle / Stephen Arata

Part III. Modes of Writing: 7. Lyric and the lyrical / Angela Leighton; 8. Epic / Herbert F. Tucker; 9. Melodrama / Carolyn Williams; 10. Sensation / Kate Flint; 11. Autobiography / Linda H. Peterson; 12. Comic and satirical / John Bowen; 13. Innovation and experiment / Jerome McGann; 14. Writing for children / Claudia Nelson

Part IV. Matters of Debate: 15. Education / Dinah Birch; 16. Spirituality / Elisabeth Jay; 17. Material / Elaine Freedgood; 18. Economics and finance / Mary Poovey; 19. History / Andrew Sanders; 20. Sexuality / Sharon Marcus; 21. Aesthetics / Elizabeth Helsinger; 22. Science and literature / Gillian Beer; 23. Subjectivity, psychology, and the imagination / Helen Small; 24. Cityscapes / Deborah Epstein Nord; 25. The rural scene : Victorian literature and the natural world / Francis O'Gorman; 26. "The annihilation of space and time" : literature and technology / Clare Pettitt

Part V. Spaces of Writing: 27. Spaces of the nineteenth-century novel / Isobel Armstrong; 28. National and regional literatures / Sara L. Maurer; 29. Britain and Europe / Nicholas Dames; 30. Victorian empire / Pablo Mukherjee; 31. Writing about America / Deirdre David

Part VI. Victorian Afterlives: 32. 1900 and the début de siècle : poetry, drama, fiction / Joseph Bristow; 33. The future of Victorian literature / Jay Clayton.