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 most recently, Reading and the Victorians (Ashgate, 2015), which she co-edited with Matthew Bradley. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature.

All essays have good selective bibliographies; all provide a good, modern resource for research.

• PART I: WAYS OF BEING: IDENTITY AND IDEOLOGY; PART II - WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING: KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF; PART III WAYS OF COMMUNICATING: PRINT AND OTHER CULTURES

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 most recently, Reading and the Victorians (Ashgate, 2015), which she co-edited with Matthew Bradley. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature.

All essays have good selective bibliographies; all provide a good, modern resource for research.

• PART I: WAYS OF BEING: IDENTITY AND IDEOLOGY; PART II - WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING: KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF; PART III WAYS OF COMMUNICATING: PRINT AND OTHER CULTURES

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 most recently, Reading and the Victorians (Ashgate, 2015), which she co-edited with Matthew Bradley. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature.

All essays have good selective bibliographies; all provide a good, modern resource for research.

• PART I: WAYS OF BEING: IDENTITY AND IDEOLOGY; PART II - WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING: KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF; PART III WAYS OF COMMUNICATING: PRINT AND OTHER CULTURES