JULIAN WOLFREYS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA.

'By far the most engaging and persuasive account of Victorian fiction I have read. Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884 is packed with extraordinarily dexterous and astute readings, lively interventions in contemporary critical debates, and brilliant insights into how we should conceptualise the Victorian novel.' - John Brannigan, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

• General Editor's PrefaceAbbreviations and Chronological List of PublicationsIntroductionPART I: CULTURAL MEMORY'The same story...with a difference': The Pickwick Papers (1836-7)'Our Society': Cranford (1853)PART II: QUESTIONS OF ENGLISHNESS: BEING & HISTORICITY'The English mind': The Moonstone (1868)'Minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions': Middlemarch (1871-72)PART III: THE NEXT GENERATION'The modern flower in a medieval flowerpot': The example of Thomas HardyChronologyAnnotated BibliographyWorks CitedIndex.

JULIAN WOLFREYS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA.

'By far the most engaging and persuasive account of Victorian fiction I have read. Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884 is packed with extraordinarily dexterous and astute readings, lively interventions in contemporary critical debates, and brilliant insights into how we should conceptualise the Victorian novel.' - John Brannigan, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

• General Editor's PrefaceAbbreviations and Chronological List of PublicationsIntroductionPART I: CULTURAL MEMORY'The same story...with a difference': The Pickwick Papers (1836-7)'Our Society': Cranford (1853)PART II: QUESTIONS OF ENGLISHNESS: BEING & HISTORICITY'The English mind': The Moonstone (1868)'Minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions': Middlemarch (1871-72)PART III: THE NEXT GENERATION'The modern flower in a medieval flowerpot': The example of Thomas HardyChronologyAnnotated BibliographyWorks CitedIndex.

JULIAN WOLFREYS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA.

'By far the most engaging and persuasive account of Victorian fiction I have read. Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884 is packed with extraordinarily dexterous and astute readings, lively interventions in contemporary critical debates, and brilliant insights into how we should conceptualise the Victorian novel.' - John Brannigan, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

• General Editor's PrefaceAbbreviations and Chronological List of PublicationsIntroductionPART I: CULTURAL MEMORY'The same story...with a difference': The Pickwick Papers (1836-7)'Our Society': Cranford (1853)PART II: QUESTIONS OF ENGLISHNESS: BEING & HISTORICITY'The English mind': The Moonstone (1868)'Minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions': Middlemarch (1871-72)PART III: THE NEXT GENERATION'The modern flower in a medieval flowerpot': The example of Thomas HardyChronologyAnnotated BibliographyWorks CitedIndex.