The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature

Editor: Felluga, Dino Franco
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $795.00
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ISBN: 978-1-118-40538-3
Category: Language & Literature - Literature
Image Count: 9
Book Status: Available
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Spans the full sweep of literary genres and figures that define this influential period, combining accessibility with an unmatched breadth of coverage and authoritative scholarship. 2016 RUSA Outstanding Reference Sources Winner.

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Table of Contents

  • Editors & Contributors
  • A
  • Adultery
  • Aestheticism
  • Aestheticism and women poets
  • Affect
  • Afghanistan
  • American Victorian fiction and prose
  • American Victorian poetry
  • Animals
  • Annual and gift book
  • Arctic, the
  • Arnold, Edwin
  • Arnold, Matthew, poetry
  • Arnold, Matthew, prose
  • Art
  • Austin, Alfred
  • Australia
  • B
  • Ballad
  • Barnes, William
  • Barrie, James Matthew
  • Beerbohm, Max
  • Besant, Annie
  • Besant, Walter
  • Bildungsroman
  • Biography
  • Blessington, Lady (Marguerite Gardiner)
  • Blind readers and blind writers
  • Body and Literature
  • Boucicault, Dion
  • Braddon, Mary Elizabeth
  • Bridges, Robert
  • Broadsides
  • Brontë, Anne
  • Brontë, Emily
  • Brontё, Charlotte
  • Broughton, Rhoda
  • Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
  • Browning, Robert
  • Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
  • Burton, Richard Francis
  • Butler, Samuel
  • C
  • Caffyn, Kathleen Mannington
  • Caird, Mona
  • Cambridge Apostles
  • Canadian Literature
  • Caribbean in literature
  • Caribbean literature, anglophone
  • Carlyle, Jane Welsh
  • Carlyle, Thomas
  • Carroll, Lewis
  • Censorship
  • Chartist literature
  • Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
  • Children's literature
  • China and Literature
  • Cholmondeley, Mary
  • Clare, John
  • Class
  • Classical culture
  • Clough, Arthur Hugh
  • Cobbe, Frances Power
  • Cognitive Studies
  • Collins, Wilkie
  • Colonial and postcolonial literature
  • Commonplace book
  • Conrad, Joseph
  • Cook, Eliza
  • Cooper, Thomas
  • Corelli, Marie
  • Corvo, Baron (Frederick William Rolfe)
  • Cosmopolitanism and Literature
  • Craik, Dinah Maria
  • Cullwick, Hannah and Munby, Arthur Joseph
  • D
  • Dance and Literature
  • Darwin, Charles
  • Davidson, John
  • Decadence
  • Degeneration
  • Detective fiction
  • Dialect poetry
  • Dickens, Charles, fiction
  • Dickens, Charles, journalism
  • Dickens, Charles, travel writing
  • Digital studies
  • Disability
  • Disraeli, Benjamin
  • Dixon, Ella Hepworth
  • Domesticity
  • Dowson, Ernest
  • Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
  • Dramatic monologue
  • Du Maurier, George
  • E
  • Eastern Europe
  • Education
  • Egerton, George
  • Elegy
  • Eliot, George, fiction
  • Eliot, George, poetry
  • Empire
  • Epic
  • Ethics
  • Eugenics
  • Ewing, Juliana Horatia
  • F
  • Fabian Society
  • Fairies
  • Fantasy
  • Farrar, Fredric W.
  • Fashion
  • Feminism
  • Field, Michael
  • Film
  • FitzGerald, Edward
  • Food
  • Formalism
  • France
  • G
  • Gaskell, Elizabeth
  • Gender
  • Germany
  • Gilbert and Sullivan
  • Gissing, George
  • Global Studies
  • Gore, Catherine
  • Gosse, Edmund
  • Gothic
  • Grand, Sarah
  • Gray, John
  • Greenwell, Dora
  • Griffith, George
  • H
  • Haggard, H. Rider
  • Hardy, Thomas
  • Henley, William Ernest
  • Henty, George Alfred
  • Historical writers and writing
  • Hood, Thomas
  • Hopkins, Gerard Manley
  • Horror fiction
  • Horticulture and botany
  • Housman, Alfred Edward
  • Howitt, Mary
  • Hughes, Thomas
  • Humor and wit
  • I
  • Illustrated newspaper
  • Illustration
  • India
  • India, English language poetry
  • Industrialism and Literature
  • Ingelow, Jean
  • Ireland
  • Irish Famine
  • Irish poetry, 1832–1880
  • Irish Poetry, 1880–1910
  • Italy
  • J
  • James, George Payne Rainsford
  • Japan
  • Japonisme
  • Jerome, Jerome K.
  • Jerrold, Douglas
  • Jews
  • Jewsbury, Geraldine
  • Johnson, Lionel
  • Journalism
  • Journalism, feminist
  • Juvenilia and juvenile writers
  • K
  • Keble, John
  • Kingsley, Charles
  • Kingsley, Henry
  • Kingsley, Mary
  • Kipling, Rudyard
  • L
  • Lang, Andrew
  • Langham Place Group
  • Latin America
  • Law
  • Le Fanu, Sheridan
  • Lear, Edward
  • Lee, Vernon
  • Lever, Charles
  • Levy, Amy
  • Lewes, George Henry
  • Liberalism
  • Libraries
  • Linton, Eliza Lynn
  • Literary criticism
  • Lyric
  • M
  • MacDonald, George
  • Machen, Arthur
  • Malet, Lucas (Mary St. Leger Kingsley)
  • Mangan, James Clarence
  • Marriage and courtship
  • Marryat, Florence
  • Marryat, Frederick
  • Marsh, Richard
  • Martineau, Harriet
  • Massey, Gerald
  • Material culture and things
  • Medicine
  • Medievalism
  • Melodrama
  • Memoirs and autobiography
  • Meredith, George
  • Merrick, Leonard
  • Mesmerism
  • Meynell, Alice
  • Mill, John Stuart
  • Modernism
  • Money and business
  • Moore, George
  • Morris, William
  • Morrison, Arthur
  • Motherhood
  • Music
  • N
  • Neo-Victorianism
  • Nesbit, Edith
  • New Woman fiction
  • New Zealand
  • Newman, John Henry
  • Newspapers
  • Norton, Caroline
  • Novel
  • Novel, adventure
  • Novel, diamond
  • Novel, factory
  • Novel, historical
  • Novel, Indian
  • Novel, Irish
  • Novel, Newgate
  • Novel, silver-fork
  • Novel, three-volume (triple-decker)
  • Novel, verse
  • O
  • Oliphant, Margaret
  • Orientalism
  • Ouida (Marie Louise Ramé)
  • Oxford Movement
  • P
  • Pacific Islands
  • Pater, Walter
  • Pathetic fallacy
  • Patmore, Coventry
  • Penny fiction
  • Periodicals
  • Pfeiffer, Emily
  • Philanthropy
  • Photography
  • Pirates in publishing
  • Poetess
  • Poetry
  • Poetry, working-class
  • Political economy
  • Politics
  • Popular literature and culture
  • Pornography
  • Pre-Raphaelitism
  • Prisons
  • Procter, Adelaide Anne
  • Prose, nonfiction
  • Prosody
  • Prosopography
  • Prostitution
  • Protestant ethic and the novel
  • Psychology and psychiatry
  • Publishing and circulation
  • R
  • Race
  • Reade, Charles
  • Reading
  • Realism
  • Reform in literature
  • Religion
  • Reynolds, G. W. M.
  • Riddell, Charlotte
  • Ritchie, Anne Isabella Thackeray
  • Robins, Elizabeth
  • Robinson, Agnes Mary Frances
  • Roget, Peter
  • Romance
  • Romanticism
  • Rossetti, Christina Georgina
  • Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
  • Ruskin, John
  • Russia
  • Rutherford, Mark (William Hale White)
  • S
  • Schreiner, Olive
  • Science
  • Science fiction
  • Science writers, female
  • Science writers, male
  • Scotland
  • Sensation fiction
  • Serialization
  • Servants in literature
  • Sewell, Anna
  • Sexuality
  • Shaw, George Bernard
  • Slavery
  • Sonnet
  • Spasmodics
  • Sport
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis
  • Stoker, Bram
  • Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  • Symonds, John Addington
  • Symons, Arthur
  • Sympathy
  • T
  • Technology
  • Technology and time
  • Temperance
  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord
  • Thackeray, William Makepeace
  • Theater
  • Tonna, Charlotte
  • Translation
  • Travel literature
  • Trollope family
  • Trollope, Anthony
  • Turner, Charles Tennyson
  • U
  • Utopia and dystopia
  • V
  • Vampires and vampirism
  • Victoria, Queen
  • Visual culture in literature
  • W
  • Wales
  • War
  • Ward, Mrs. Humphry (Mary Augusta Ward)
  • Watson, Rosamund Marriott
  • Webster, Augusta
  • Wells, Herbert George
  • Wilde, Oscar
  • Wilde, Oscar, journalism
  • Women of letters
  • Wood, Ellen
  • Worboise, Emma Jane
  • Wordsworth, William
  • Y
  • Yonge, Charlotte
  • Z
  • Zangwill, Israel