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 Christianity and Judaism – Mark Knight

Spatiality and Environment






Domesticity – Melissa Valiska Gregory



Regionalism and Provincialism: Where is the Local? – Mary Ellis Gibson



Postcolonial - Sukanya Banerjee



Travel Writing – Andrea Kaston Tange



Settler Colonialism – Tamara Silvia Wagner



Victorians in the Anthropocene – Jesse Oak Taylor



Why Victorian Ecocriticism Matters – Lynn Voskuil



Industry – Siobhan Carroll

About the Contributors

Index