Contemporary Views

• Early and mid-Victorian criticism of the novel

Buildungsroman

• An Introduction
• Buildungsroman 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 Courtship Novel

• Introduction

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

The Penny Dreadful (or Penny Blood)

• Penny dreadfuls, juvenile crime, and late-Victorian moral panic

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

Pornography

• Sitemap

The Sensation Novel

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

Science Fiction

• Richard Jefferies and Victorian Science Fiction

The Medievalist Novel

• Medievalism in Victorian Fiction — A Brief Bibliography

The Silver Fork School

• Introduction
• Bibliography

The Slum Novel

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

The University Novel

• A List of 98 Examples

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

Discussion Questions for Tillotson's Novels of the Eighteen-Forties

• Question One: Novels of the 1840s Only
• Question Two: The New Historicist Perspective
• Question 3. The Rise of the Novel as Supreme Among Popular Genres
• Question 4. Banning or Limiting the Availability of the Novel
• Question 5. The Predominance of the "Triple-Decker