General

• Eneas Dallas on the "deluge of fiction"

Bildungsroman

• An Introduction
• Bildungsroman in E. B. Browning, C. Dickens, and G. Swift

Children's Literature

• Sitemap

The Condition-of-England Novel

• Introduction
• Thomas Carlyle and the Origin of the “Condition of England Question”
• Benjamin Disraeli and the Two Nation Divide
• Shirley As a Condition-of-England Novel

The Detective Novel

• Detective Novels: Whodunits and Thrillers
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Inspector Bucket Points the Way

The Epistolary Novel

• Trollope's use of letters
• Subjective response to letters in nineteenth-century fictions
• Letters and dialogue in drama
• Epistolary novels and psychological action
• Epistolary fiction — a bibliographical note

The Fantasy Novel and Short Story

• Lewis Carroll
• Lord Dunsany
• William Hope Hodgson
• Charles Kingsley
• George MacDonald
• George Meredith
• William Morris
• John Ruskin
• Bram Stoker
• The Invented World in the Works of William Morris
• Realism in High Fantasy
• The Novel, Fantastic Fiction, and the Inner World

Ghost stories

• [Review of] Luke Thurston's Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism: The Haunting Interval

Gothic Fiction

• Women Fiction Writers and the Victorian Gothic: A Selective Bibliography

Nautical Fiction

• Nineteenth-Century Authors of Nautical Fiction

The Political Novel

• The Genre of the Political Novel
• Didacticism and the Political Novel
• Morris Edmund Speare on Inclusiveness in the Political Novel
• American vs. British Political Novels
• The Victorian Novel of Inter-class Romance
• The Victorian Social Novel as Genre
• Structure and Technique in the Victorian Political Novel

Science Fiction

• Richard Jefferies and Victorian Science Fiction

The Sensation Novel

• Introduction
• Hardy and the Sensation Novel
• The Victorian Custody Novel
• Selected Bibliography

The Silver Fork School

• Introduction
• Bibliography

The Slum Novel

• Introduction
• Bibliography of primary sources
• Bibliography of criticism an scholarship

The Utopian Novel

• Homesick in Utopia: State Capitalism and Pathology in Novels of the 1880s and 1890s
• Science and Technology in Victorian Utopias

The Victorian Governess Novel

• Introduction
• Characteristics of the Genre
• The Victorian Governess: A Bibliography
• Punch and Brontë on Training the Ideal Governess

The New Woman Novel

• Introduction
• Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources

The Novels of the Eighteen-forties: Questions

• 1. Question One: Novels of the 1840s Only
• 2. The New Historicist Perspective
• 3. The Rise of the Novel as Supreme Among Popular Genres
• 4. Banning or Limiting the Availability of the Novel
• 5. The Predominance of the "Triple-Decker"
• 6. The Rise of Part-Publication
• 7. The Illustrated Part-Issue
• 8. The Monthly Part-Issue, 1836-1870
• 9. The Rise of Magazine Serial Fiction, 1860-
• 10. The Limitations of Novels of the 1840s
• 11. Victorian Readers' Reactions to Death in a Novel
• 12. Victorian Readers' Reactions to a Suffering Child in Fiction
• 13. Podsnappery and "The Tyranny of the Young Person"
• 14. Reactions to The Newgate Novel
• 15. Disraeli's "Two Nations"
• 16. Expanding the Range of the Novel: Class and Geography
• 17. A novel neither historical nor thoroughly contemporary
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• 18. The Thesis-Novel or "Novel-with-a-Purpose"