The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature

Dennis Denisoff is McFarlin Endowed Chair of English at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of, among other works, Aestheticism and Sexual Parody and Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film. He is the editor of Arthur Machen: Decadent and Occult Works and a special issue of Victorian Review on "Natural Environments," founding co-editor of The Yellow Nineties Online, and coeditor of Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence. He has recently published on sexuality, the occult, eco-spirituality, decadence, and the environmental humanities. He is currently editing a special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture on decadence and completing a monograph on decadent ecology and the new paganism (1860–1920). Talia Schaffer is Professor of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center at City University of New York. She is the author of Romance’s Rival, Novel Craft, and The Forgotten Female Aesthetes. She has edited Literature and Culture at the Fin de Siècle, a scholarly edition of Lucas Malet's 1901 novel, The History of Sir Richard Calmady, and co-edited Women and British Aestheticism as well as a special issue of Victorian Review, "Extending Families." Schaffer has published widely on Victorian familial and marital norms, feminist scholarship, disability studies, ethical readings, women writers, material culture, and popular fiction. She is completing a monograph on the feminist theory of "ethics of care" as a new way of thinking about social collectivity in Victorian fiction.

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Our Victorian Companions – Dennis Denisoff



Genres and Movements










Poetry – Alison Chapman







The Novel – Elsie Michie







Short Forms: Serialization and Short Fiction – Susan David Bernstein







Drama and Performance – Sharon Aronofsky Weltman







Children’s Literature– Jessica Straley







Life-Writing – Trev Broughton







Gothic, Horror, and the Weird: Shifting Paradigms – Roger Luckhurst







Sensation Scholarship – Pamela Gilbert







Decadence and Aestheticism – Stefano Evangelista






Media Histories










Book History – Andrew Stauffer







Victorianist Digital Humanities – Karen Bourrier







Periodical Studies – Linda K. Hughes







Material Culture – Deborah Lutz







Popular Fiction and Culture – Nicholas Daly







Radical Print Culture: From Chartism to Socialism – Ian Haywood







Visual Culture – Kate Flint






Victorian Discourses










Victorianists and Their Reading – Rachel Buurma and Laura Heffernan







Aesthetic Formalism – Rae Greiner







Narrative Theory – Elaine Auyoung







The Ethical Turn – Rebecca N. Mitchell







The Future of Economic Criticisms Past – Supritha Rajan







History/Historicism – Catherine Gallagher







Liberalism and Citizenship – Helen Small






Formulations of Identity










Feminism and the Canon – Talia Schaffer







Gender and Sexuality – Duc Dau







New Women Writing – Molly Youngkin







Disability Studies– Martha Stoddard Holmes







The Concept of Class in Victorian Studies – Carolyn Betensky







Race: Tracing the Contours of a Long Nineteenth Century – Irene Tucker







The Emergence of Animal Studies – Martin Danahay and Deborah Denenholz Morse






Science and Spirit










Technology and Literature – Richard Menke







Brain Science – Anne Stiles







British Psychology in the Nineteenth Century – Suzanne Keen







Anthropology and Classical Evolutionism – Kathy A. Psomiades







Geology and Paleontology – Ralph O’Connor







New Religions and Esotericism – Christine Ferguson







Studies of Christi