Juliet John is Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on Victorian literature and culture. Her books include Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback 2003), Dickens and Mass Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback 2013) and Reading and the Victorians (Ashgate, 2015), which she co-edited with Matthew Bradley. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature.

Review from previous edition For the excellence of its essays and the timeliness of its topics, this is an exceptionally strong collection.

• Juliet John: Introduction: Literary Culture and the Victorians Part I - Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology 1: Rae Greiner: The Victorian Subject: Thackeray's Wartime Subjects 2: Trev Broughton: Life Writing and the Victorians 3: Josephine Guy: Politics and the Literary 4: Ian Haywood: The Literature of Chartism 5: Lauren M.E. Goodlad: Liberalism and Literature 6: Ayşe Çelikkol: Globalization and Economics 7: Kathleen Blake: Political Economy 8: Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn: The Victorians, Sex, and Gender 9: Teresa Mangum: The New Woman and Her Ageing Other 10: Kate Flint: Unspeakable Desires: We Other Victorians 11: Holly Furneaux: Victorian Masculinities, or Military Men of Feeling: Domesticity, Militarism, and Manly Sensibility 12: Patrick Brantlinger: Empire, Place, and the Victorians 13: John Kucich: Organic Imperialism: Fictions of Progressive Social Order at the Colonial Periphery 14: Lara Kriegel: The Strange Career of Fair Play, or, Warfare and Gamesmanship in the Time of Victoria 15: Melissa Free: British Women Wanted: Gender, Genre, and South African Settlement 16: Alex Murray: 'The London Sunday Faded Slow': Time to Spend in the Victorian City Part II - Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief 17: Emma Mason: Religion, The Bible, and Literature in the Victorian Age 18: James Eli Adams: Religion and Sexuality 19: Matthew Bradley: Religion and the Canon 20: Mark Knight: Religion and Education 21: Alice Jenkins: Beyond Two Cultures: Science, Literature, and Disciplinary Boundaries 22: Sally Shuttleworth: Science and Periodicals: Animal Instinct and Whispering Machines 23: Amy M. King: Victorian Natural Science and the Seashore 24: Elizabeth Meadows and Jay Clayton: 'You've Got Mail': Technologies of Communication in Victorian Literature Part III - Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures 25: Robert L. Patten: The New Cultural Marketplace: Victorian Publishing and Reading Practices 26: Joanne Shattock: Literature and the Expansion of the Press 27: John Plotz: Materiality in Theory: What to Make of Victorian Things 28: John Plunkett: Celebrity Culture 29: Jonah Siegel: Victorian Aesthetics 30: Carolyn Burdett: Emotions 31: Ruth Livesey: Aestheticism and the Politics of Pleasure 32: Julia Thomas: Illustrations and the Victorian Novel 33: Hilary Fraser: Art and the Literary 34: Katherine Newey: Victorian Theatre: Research Problems and Progress 35: Kerry Powell: Victorian Theatre: Power and the Politics of Gender 36: Jim Davis: Melodrama On and Off the Stage 37: Gail Marshall: Henry James's Houses: Domesticity and Performativity

Juliet John is Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on Victorian literature and culture. Her books include Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback 2003), Dickens and Mass Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback 2013) and Reading and the Victorians (Ashgate, 2015), which she co-edited with Matthew Bradley. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature.

Review from previous edition For the excellence of its essays and the timeliness of its topics, this is an exceptionally strong collection.

• Juliet John: Introduction: Literary Culture and the Victorians Part I - Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology 1: Rae Greiner: The Victorian Subject: Thackeray's Wartime Subjects 2: Trev Broughton: Life Writing and the Victorians 3: Josephine Guy: Politics and the Literary 4: Ian Haywood: The Literature of Chartism 5: Lauren M.E. Goodlad: Liberalism and Literature 6: Ayşe Çelikkol: Globalization and Economics 7: Kathleen Blake: Political Economy 8: Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn: The Victorians, Sex, and Gender 9: Teresa Mangum: The New Woman and Her Ageing Other 10: Kate Flint: Unspeakable Desires: We Other Victorians 11: Holly Furneaux: Victorian Masculinities, or Military Men of Feeling: Domesticity, Militarism, and Manly Sensibility 12: Patrick Brantlinger: Empire, Place, and the Victorians 13: John Kucich: Organic Imperialism: Fictions of Progressive Social Order at the Colonial Periphery 14: Lara Kriegel: The Strange Career of Fair Play, or, Warfare and Gamesmanship in the Time of Victoria 15: Melissa Free: British Women Wanted: Gender, Genre, and South African Settlement 16: Alex Murray: 'The London Sunday Faded Slow': Time to Spend in the Victorian City Part II - Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief 17: Emma Mason: Religion, The Bible, and Literature in the Victorian Age 18: James Eli Adams: Religion and Sexuality 19: Matthew Bradley: Religion and the Canon 20: Mark Knight: Religion and Education 21: Alice Jenkins: Beyond Two Cultures: Science, Literature, and Disciplinary Boundaries 22: Sally Shuttleworth: Science and Periodicals: Animal Instinct and Whispering Machines 23: Amy M. King: Victorian Natural Science and the Seashore 24: Elizabeth Meadows and Jay Clayton: 'You've Got Mail': Technologies of Communication in Victorian Literature Part III - Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures 25: Robert L. Patten: The New Cultural Marketplace: Victorian Publishing and Reading Practices 26: Joanne Shattock: Literature and the Expansion of the Press 27: John Plotz: Materiality in Theory: What to Make of Victorian Things 28: John Plunkett: Celebrity Culture 29: Jonah Siegel: Victorian Aesthetics 30: Carolyn Burdett: Emotions 31: Ruth Livesey: Aestheticism and the Politics of Pleasure 32: Julia Thomas: Illustrations and the Victorian Novel 33: Hilary Fraser: Art and the Literary 34: Katherine Newey: Victorian Theatre: Research Problems and Progress 35: Kerry Powell: Victorian Theatre: Power and the Politics of Gender 36: Jim Davis: Melodrama On and Off the Stage 37: Gail Marshall: Henry James's Houses: Domesticity and Performativity

Juliet John is Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on Victorian literature and culture. Her books include Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback 2003), Dickens and Mass Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback 2013) and Reading and the Victorians (Ashgate, 2015), which she co-edited with Matthew Bradley. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature.

Review from previous edition For the excellence of its essays and the timeliness of its topics, this is an exceptionally strong collection.

• Juliet John: Introduction: Literary Culture and the Victorians Part I - Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology 1: Rae Greiner: The Victorian Subject: Thackeray's Wartime Subjects 2: Trev Broughton: Life Writing and the Victorians 3: Josephine Guy: Politics and the Literary 4: Ian Haywood: The Literature of Chartism 5: Lauren M.E. Goodlad: Liberalism and Literature 6: Ayşe Çelikkol: Globalization and Economics 7: Kathleen Blake: Political Economy 8: Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn: The Victorians, Sex, and Gender 9: Teresa Mangum: The New Woman and Her Ageing Other 10: Kate Flint: Unspeakable Desires: We Other Victorians 11: Holly Furneaux: Victorian Masculinities, or Military Men of Feeling: Domesticity, Militarism, and Manly Sensibility 12: Patrick Brantlinger: Empire, Place, and the Victorians 13: John Kucich: Organic Imperialism: Fictions of Progressive Social Order at the Colonial Periphery 14: Lara Kriegel: The Strange Career of Fair Play, or, Warfare and Gamesmanship in the Time of Victoria 15: Melissa Free: British Women Wanted: Gender, Genre, and South African Settlement 16: Alex Murray: 'The London Sunday Faded Slow': Time to Spend in the Victorian City Part II - Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief 17: Emma Mason: Religion, The Bible, and Literature in the Victorian Age 18: James Eli Adams: Religion and Sexuality 19: Matthew Bradley: Religion and the Canon 20: Mark Knight: Religion and Education 21: Alice Jenkins: Beyond Two Cultures: Science, Literature, and Disciplinary Boundaries 22: Sally Shuttleworth: Science and Periodicals: Animal Instinct and Whispering Machines 23: Amy M. King: Victorian Natural Science and the Seashore 24: Elizabeth Meadows and Jay Clayton: 'You've Got Mail': Technologies of Communication in Victorian Literature Part III - Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures 25: Robert L. Patten: The New Cultural Marketplace: Victorian Publishing and Reading Practices 26: Joanne Shattock: Literature and the Expansion of the Press 27: John Plotz: Materiality in Theory: What to Make of Victorian Things 28: John Plunkett: Celebrity Culture 29: Jonah Siegel: Victorian Aesthetics 30: Carolyn Burdett: Emotions 31: Ruth Livesey: Aestheticism and the Politics of Pleasure 32: Julia Thomas: Illustrations and the Victorian Novel 33: Hilary Fraser: Art and the Literary 34: Katherine Newey: Victorian Theatre: Research Problems and Progress 35: Kerry Powell: Victorian Theatre: Power and the Politics of Gender 36: Jim Davis: Melodrama On and Off the Stage 37: Gail Marshall: Henry James's Houses: Domesticity and Performativity