John Kucich is a Professor of English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has written numerous books and essays on nineteenth-century literature and culture. His publications include Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (Georgia, 1981), Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens (California, 1987), The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (Cornell, 1994), and Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class (Princeton, 2007). He has also edited, with Dianne F. Sadoff, Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (Minnesota, 2000).Jenny Bourne Taylor is a Professor of English at the University of Sussex. She has written widely on nineteenth-century literature and culture. Her publication include (with Sally Shuttleworth) Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts (Clarendon, 1998), and ed., with Margot Finn and Michael Lobban Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Law, Literature and History (Palgrave, 2010).

`A very welcome addition to the series.'Ian Campbell, The Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society

• PART I: NOVELISTS, READERS, AND THE FICTION INDUSTRY; PART II: VARIETIES AND GENRES; PART III: MAJOR AUTHORS IN CONTEXT; PART IV: NARRATIVE STRUCTURES AND STRATEGIES; PART V: THE NATION AND ITS BOUNDARIES; PART VI: CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS

John Kucich is a Professor of English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has written numerous books and essays on nineteenth-century literature and culture. His publications include Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (Georgia, 1981), Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens (California, 1987), The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (Cornell, 1994), and Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class (Princeton, 2007). He has also edited, with Dianne F. Sadoff, Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (Minnesota, 2000).Jenny Bourne Taylor is a Professor of English at the University of Sussex. She has written widely on nineteenth-century literature and culture. Her publication include (with Sally Shuttleworth) Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts (Clarendon, 1998), and ed., with Margot Finn and Michael Lobban Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Law, Literature and History (Palgrave, 2010).

`A very welcome addition to the series.'Ian Campbell, The Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society

• PART I: NOVELISTS, READERS, AND THE FICTION INDUSTRY; PART II: VARIETIES AND GENRES; PART III: MAJOR AUTHORS IN CONTEXT; PART IV: NARRATIVE STRUCTURES AND STRATEGIES; PART V: THE NATION AND ITS BOUNDARIES; PART VI: CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS

John Kucich is a Professor of English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has written numerous books and essays on nineteenth-century literature and culture. His publications include Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (Georgia, 1981), Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens (California, 1987), The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (Cornell, 1994), and Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class (Princeton, 2007). He has also edited, with Dianne F. Sadoff, Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (Minnesota, 2000).Jenny Bourne Taylor is a Professor of English at the University of Sussex. She has written widely on nineteenth-century literature and culture. Her publication include (with Sally Shuttleworth) Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts (Clarendon, 1998), and ed., with Margot Finn and Michael Lobban Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Law, Literature and History (Palgrave, 2010).

`A very welcome addition to the series.'Ian Campbell, The Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society

• PART I: NOVELISTS, READERS, AND THE FICTION INDUSTRY; PART II: VARIETIES AND GENRES; PART III: MAJOR AUTHORS IN CONTEXT; PART IV: NARRATIVE STRUCTURES AND STRATEGIES; PART V: THE NATION AND ITS BOUNDARIES; PART VI: CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS