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Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors. Part of the Blackwell Histories of Literature series, the book describes the development of the Victorian literary movement and places it within its cultural, social and political context.

• A wide-ranging narrative overview of literature in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, capturing the extraordinary variety of literary output produced during this era
• Analyzes the development of all literary forms during this period - the novel, poetry, drama, autobiography and critical prose - in conjunction with major developments in social and intellectual history
• Considers the ways in which writers engaged with new forms of social responsibility in their work, as Britain transformed into the world's first industrial economy
• Offers a fresh perspective on the work of both major figures and some of the era’s less familiar authors

• Winner of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award, 2009

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Drawing on a broad range of contemporary scholarship, this book analyzes the development of literary forms - the novel, poetry, drama, autobiography and critical prose - in conjunction with major developments in social and intellectual history. A central concern is the way in which writers engaged with new forms of social responsibility in their works, as Britain transformed into the world's first industrial economy.

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Preface ix  
Note on Citations xiii
 
Introduction: Locating Victorian Literature 1
 
Byron is Dead 1
 
Cultural Contexts 2
 
The Literary Field 11
 
An Age of Prose 14
 
The Situation of Poetry 19
 
Victorian Theater 21
 
The Novel After Scott 22
 
1 "The Times are Unexampled": Literature in the Age of Machinery, 1830–1850 27
 
Constructing the Man of Letters 27
 
The Burdens of Poetry 33
 
Theater in the 1830s 48
 
Fiction in the Early 1830s 50
 
Dickens and the Forms of Fiction 55
 
Poetry after the Annuals 66
 
Literature of Travel 70
 
History and Heroism 73
 
Social Crisis and the Novel 81
 
The Domestic Ideal 84
 
From Silver-Fork to Farce 86
 
Poetry in the Early 1840s 89
 
The Literature of Labor 95
 
Medievalism 98
 
"The Two Nations" 101
 
"What's Money After All?" 111
 
Romance and Religion 116
 
The Novel of Development 123
 
Art, Politics, and Faith 127
 
In Memoriam 137
 
2 Crystal Palace and Bleak House: Expansion and Anomie, 1851–1873 143
 
The Novel and Society 145
 
Crimea and the Forms of Heroism 156
 
Empire 164
 
Spasmodics and Other Poets 168
 
The Power of Art 182
 
Realisms 187
 
Two Guineveres 194
 
Sensation 200
 
Dreams of Self-Fashioning 207
 
Narrating Nature: Darwin 215
 
Novels and their Audiences 218
 
Literature for Children 228
 
Poetry in the Early 1860s 232
 
Criticism and Belief 244
 
The Pleasures of the Difficult 250
 
The Hellenic Tradition 259
 
Domesticity, Politics, Empire, and the Novel 267
 
After Dickens 275
 
The Persistence of Epic 282
 
Poisonous Honey and Fleshly Poetry 286
 
3 The Rise of Mass Culture and the Specter of Decline, 1873–1901 293
 
Science, Materialism, and Value 296
 
Twilight of the Poetic Titans 305
 
The Decline of the Marriage Plot 314
 
The Aesthetic Movement 325
 
Aesthetic Poetry 329
 
Life-Writing 333
 
Morality and the Novel 342
 
Romance 351
 
Regionalism 356
 
The Arrival of Kipling 360
 
Fiction and the Forms of Belief 365
 
Sex, Science, and Danger 370
 
Fictions of the Artist 375
 
Decadence 377
 
Drama in the 1880s 381
 
The New Woman in Fiction 386
 
Decadent Form 394
 
The Poetry of London 400
 
Yeats 405
 
The Scandal of Wilde 408
 
Poetry After Wilde 411
 
Fictions of Decline 416
 
Conrad 423
 
Epilogue 429
 
Works Cited 435
 
Index 451

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