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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