Stephen Regan is Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.

'Stephen Regan's hefty collection of essays on the 19th century novel is indispensable to any course on Victorian literature.' - Times Higher Education Supplement'This compendium of sixty or so essays provides every angle on fiction anyone could possibly want, with unobtrusive orientation for less experienced students of literature.' - Joy Alexander, Use of English

• Preface Introduction PART I: EARLY ESSAYS AND REVIEWS Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance, Walter Scott, On Romance, Hippolyte Taine, Charles Dickens: son talent et ses œuvres, George Eliot, The Natural History of German Life, George Henry Lewes, Realism in Art: Recent German Fiction, Margaret Oliphant, Sensation Novels, Henry Mansel, Sensation Novels, Walter Pater, The Modern Mind, Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense, E.S. Dallas, The Gay Science, Walter Besant, The Art of Fiction, Henry James, The Art of Fiction, Henry James, Novels by Eliot, Hardy and Flaubert, Robert Louis Stevenson, A Humble Remonstrance, Thomas Hardy, The Science of Fiction, Émile Zola, The Experimental Novel, Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams PART II: MODERN CRITICISM 1 Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey 2 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 3 Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son 4 George Eliot, Middlemarch 5 Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd 6 Émile Zola, Germinal 7 Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary: 8 Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White 9 Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady 10 Bram Stoker, Dracula: 11 Kate Chopin, The Awakening: 12 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Stephen Regan is Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.

'Stephen Regan's hefty collection of essays on the 19th century novel is indispensable to any course on Victorian literature.' - Times Higher Education Supplement'This compendium of sixty or so essays provides every angle on fiction anyone could possibly want, with unobtrusive orientation for less experienced students of literature.' - Joy Alexander, Use of English

• Preface Introduction PART I: EARLY ESSAYS AND REVIEWS Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance, Walter Scott, On Romance, Hippolyte Taine, Charles Dickens: son talent et ses œuvres, George Eliot, The Natural History of German Life, George Henry Lewes, Realism in Art: Recent German Fiction, Margaret Oliphant, Sensation Novels, Henry Mansel, Sensation Novels, Walter Pater, The Modern Mind, Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense, E.S. Dallas, The Gay Science, Walter Besant, The Art of Fiction, Henry James, The Art of Fiction, Henry James, Novels by Eliot, Hardy and Flaubert, Robert Louis Stevenson, A Humble Remonstrance, Thomas Hardy, The Science of Fiction, Émile Zola, The Experimental Novel, Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams PART II: MODERN CRITICISM 1 Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey 2 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 3 Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son 4 George Eliot, Middlemarch 5 Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd 6 Émile Zola, Germinal 7 Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary: 8 Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White 9 Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady 10 Bram Stoker, Dracula: 11 Kate Chopin, The Awakening: 12 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Stephen Regan is Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.

'Stephen Regan's hefty collection of essays on the 19th century novel is indispensable to any course on Victorian literature.' - Times Higher Education Supplement'This compendium of sixty or so essays provides every angle on fiction anyone could possibly want, with unobtrusive orientation for less experienced students of literature.' - Joy Alexander, Use of English

• Preface Introduction PART I: EARLY ESSAYS AND REVIEWS Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance, Walter Scott, On Romance, Hippolyte Taine, Charles Dickens: son talent et ses œuvres, George Eliot, The Natural History of German Life, George Henry Lewes, Realism in Art: Recent German Fiction, Margaret Oliphant, Sensation Novels, Henry Mansel, Sensation Novels, Walter Pater, The Modern Mind, Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense, E.S. Dallas, The Gay Science, Walter Besant, The Art of Fiction, Henry James, The Art of Fiction, Henry James, Novels by Eliot, Hardy and Flaubert, Robert Louis Stevenson, A Humble Remonstrance, Thomas Hardy, The Science of Fiction, Émile Zola, The Experimental Novel, Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams PART II: MODERN CRITICISM 1 Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey 2 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 3 Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son 4 George Eliot, Middlemarch 5 Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd 6 Émile Zola, Germinal 7 Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary: 8 Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White 9 Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady 10 Bram Stoker, Dracula: 11 Kate Chopin, The Awakening: 12 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness