Victorian novel emerges, 1800-1840 / Ian Duncan -- Periodicals and syndication / Graham Law -- Book publishing and the Victorian literary marketplace / Peter L. Shillingsburg -- Victorian illustrators and illustration / Lynn Alexander -- Nineteenth-century political novel / Julian Wolfreys -- Sociological contexts of Victorian fiction / M. Clare Loughlin-Chow -- Faith, religion, and the nineteenth-century novel / Nancy Cervetti -- Philosophy and the Victorian literary aesthetic / Martin Bidney -- Science and the scientist in Victorian fiction / Michael H. Whitworth -- Law and the Victorian novel / Elizabeth F. Judge -- Intoxication and the Victorian novel / Kathleen McCormack -- Ghosts and hauntings in the Victorian novel / Lucie J. Armitt -- Victorian gothic / Peter J. Kitson -- Victorian detective fiction / Lillian Nayder -- Victorian social problem novel / James G. Nelson -- Victorian sensation novel / Helen Debenham -- Victorian juvenilia / Christine Alexander -- Moving pictures : film and the representation of Victorian fictions / Todd F. Davis -- Religion in the novels of Charlotte and Anne Brontë / Marianne Thormählen -- Victorian professionalism and Charlotte Brontë's Villette / Russell Poole -- Charles Dickens / K.J. Fielding -- George Eliot : critical responses to Daniel Deronda / Nancy Henry -- George Eliot's reading revolution and the mythical school of criticism / William R. McKelvy -- Thomas Hardy / Edward Neill -- Vanities of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity fair / Juliet McMaster -- Anthony Trollope and "classic realism" / K.M. Newton -- George Meredith at the crossways / Margaret Harris -- "Not burying the one talent" : Mrs. Gaskell's life of duty / Barbara Quinn Schmidt -- Wilkie Collins's challenges to pre-Raphaelite gender constructs / Sophia Andres -- Postcolonial readings / Roslyn Jolly -- Feminist criticism and the nineteenth-century novel / Eileen Gillooly -- Otherness and identity in the Victorian novel / Michael Galchinsky.