The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

Juliet John is Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on Victorian literature and culture. Her books include Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback 2003), Dickens and Mass Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback 2013) and Reading and the Victorians (Ashgate, 2015), which she co-edited with Matthew Bradley. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature.

Juliet John: Introduction: Literary Culture and the Victorians
Part I - Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology
1: Rae Greiner: The Victorian Subject: Thackeray's Wartime Subjects
2: Trev Broughton: Life Writing and the Victorians
3: Josephine Guy: Politics and the Literary
4: Ian Haywood: The Literature of Chartism
5: Lauren M.E. Goodlad: Liberalism and Literature
6: Ayşe Çelikkol: Globalization and Economics
7: Kathleen Blake: Political Economy
8: Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn: The Victorians, Sex, and Gender
9: Teresa Mangum: The New Woman and Her Ageing Other
10: Kate Flint: Unspeakable Desires: We Other Victorians
11: Holly Furneaux: Victorian Masculinities, or Military Men of Feeling: Domesticity, Militarism, and Manly Sensibility
12: Patrick Brantlinger: Empire, Place, and the Victorians
13: John Kucich: Organic Imperialism: Fictions of Progressive Social Order at the Colonial Periphery
14: Lara Kriegel: The Strange Career of Fair Play, or, Warfare and Gamesmanship in the Time of Victoria
15: Melissa Free: British Women Wanted: Gender, Genre, and South African Settlement
16: Alex Murray: 'The London Sunday Faded Slow': Time to Spend in the Victorian City
Part II - Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief
17: Emma Mason: Religion, The Bible, and Literature in the Victorian Age
18: James Eli Adams: Religion and Sexuality
19: Matthew Bradley: Religion and the Canon
20: Mark Knight: Religion and Education
21: Alice Jenkins: Beyond Two Cultures: Science, Literature, and Disciplinary Boundaries
22: Sally Shuttleworth: Science and Periodicals: Animal Instinct and Whispering Machines
23: Amy M. King: Victorian Natural Science and the Seashore
24: Elizabeth Meadows and Jay Clayton: 'You've Got Mail': Technologies of Communication in Victorian Literature
Part III - Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures
25: Robert L. Patten: The New Cultural Marketplace: Victorian Publishing and Reading Practices
26: Joanne Shattock: Literature and the Expansion of the Press
27: John Plotz: Materiality in Theory: What to Make of Victorian Things
28: John Plunkett: Celebrity Culture
29: Jonah Siegel: Victorian Aesthetics
30: Carolyn Burdett: Emotions
31: Ruth Livesey: Aestheticism and the Politics of Pleasure
32: Julia Thomas: Illustrations and the Victorian Novel
33: Hilary Fraser: Art and the Literary
34: Katherine Newey: Victorian Theatre: Research Problems and Progress
35: Kerry Powell: Victorian Theatre: Power and the Politics of Gender
36: Jim Davis: Melodrama On and Off the Stage
37: Gail Marshall: Henry James's Houses: Domesticity and Performativity