The Victorian Novel

Challenges the notion of a Great Tradition or mainstream Victorian novel by looking at the proliferation of subgenres-e.g., sensation fiction, crime fiction, thug fiction, colonial adventures stories-for which the period is known. Includes novels by Mary Shelley, the Brontës, Dickens, Mrs. Henry Wood, Eliot, Hardy, Stevenson, Haggard, Stoker, and Wilde.