Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature

Dennis Denisoff is McFarlin Endowed Chair of English at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of, among other works, Aestheticism and Sexual Parody and Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film. He is the editor of Arthur Machen: Decadent and Occult Works and a special issue of Victorian Review on "Natural Environments," founding co-editor of The Yellow Nineties Online, and coeditor of Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence. He has recently published on sexuality, the occult, eco-spirituality, decadence, and the environmental humanities. He is currently editing a special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture on decadence and completing a monograph on decadent ecology and the new paganism (1860–1920).Talia Schaffer is Professor of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center at City University of New York. She is the author of Romance’s Rival, Novel Craft, and The Forgotten Female Aesthetes. She has edited Literature and Culture at the Fin de Siècle, a scholarly edition of Lucas Malet's 1901 novel, The History of Sir Richard Calmady, and co-edited Women and British Aestheticism as well as a special issue of Victorian Review, "Extending Families." Schaffer has published widely on Victorian familial and marital norms, feminist scholarship, disability studies, ethical readings, women writers, material culture, and popular fiction. She is completing a monograph on the feminist theory of "ethics of care" as a new way of thinking about social collectivity in Victorian fiction.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Our Victorian Companions – Dennis DenisoffGenres and Movements Poetry – Alison Chapman The Novel – Elsie Michie Short Forms: Serialization and Short Fiction – Susan David Bernstein Drama and Performance – Sharon Aronofsky Weltman Children’s Literature– Jessica Straley Life-Writing – Trev Broughton Gothic, Horror, and the Weird: Shifting Paradigms – Roger Luckhurst Sensation Scholarship – Pamela Gilbert Decadence and Aestheticism – Stefano EvangelistaMedia Histories Book History – Andrew Stauffer Victorianist Digital Humanities – Karen Bourrier Periodical Studies – Linda K. Hughes Material Culture – Deborah Lutz Popular Fiction and Culture – Nicholas Daly Radical Print Culture: From Chartism to Socialism – Ian Haywood Visual Culture – Kate Flint Victorian Discourses Victorianists and Their Reading – Rachel Buurma and Laura Heffernan Aesthetic Formalism – Rae Greiner Narrative Theory – Elaine Auyoung The Ethical Turn – Rebecca N. Mitchell The Future of Economic Criticisms Past – Supritha Rajan History/Historicism – Catherine Gallagher Liberalism and Citizenship – Helen SmallFormulations of Identity Feminism and the Canon – Talia Schaffer Gender and Sexuality – Duc Dau New Women Writing – Molly Youngkin Disability Studies– Martha Stoddard Holmes The Concept of Class in Victorian Studies – Carolyn Betensky Race: Tracing the Contours of a Long Nineteenth Century – Irene Tucker The Emergence of Animal Studies – Martin Danahay and Deborah Denenholz MorseScience and Spirit Technology and Literature – Richard Menke Brain Science – Anne Stiles British Psychology in the Nineteenth Century – Suzanne Keen Anthropology and Classical Evolutionism – Kathy A. Psomiades Geology and Paleontology – Ralph O’Connor New Religions and Esotericism – Christine Ferguson Studies of Christianity and Judaism – Mark KnightSpatiality and Environment Domesticity – Melissa Valiska Gregory Regionalism and Provincialism: Where is the Local? – Mary Ellis Gibson Postcolonial - Sukanya Banerjee Travel Writing – Andrea Kaston Tange Settler Colonialism – Tamara Silvia Wagner Victorians in the Anthropocene – Jesse Oak Taylor Why Victorian Ecocriticism Matters – Lynn Voskuil Industry – Siobhan CarrollAbout the ContributorsIndex