Twenty-first century perspectives on Victorian literature

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Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Victorian Literature: A Cultural and Historical Overview, Jennifer Cadwallader Chapter 2: velocity of the novel-producing apparatus and large loose baggy monsters: The Changing Reputation of the Victorian Novel, Tamara Sylvia Wagner Chapter 3: Popular Fiction and Social Protest: Dickens in the 1830s, Chris Louttit Chapter 4: Faith and Doubt: Tennyson and Other Victorian Poets, Saverio Tomaiuolo Chapter 5: Victorian Romanticism: The Bronte Sisters, Thomas Carlyle, and the Persistence of Memory, Laura Dabundo Chapter 6: Overt and Covert Narrative Structure: A Reconsideration of Jane Eyre, Katherine Saunders Nash Chapter 7: What is a Social Problem Novel?, Barbara Leckie Chapter 8: Matrimony, Property, and the Woman Question in Anne Bronte and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Amy J. Robinson Chapter 9: A World of Its Own Creation: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and the New Paradigm for Art, David Latham Chapter 10: Matthew Arnold as a Critic: A Twenty-First Century Perspective, Clinton Machann Chapter 11: Great Expectations, Memories, and Hopes Dashed: Dickens and Late Style, Grace Moore Chapter 12: Tragedy and Ecology in the Later Novels of Thomas Hardy, Ronald D. Morrison Further Reading Contributors