Abstract
Unfinished novels often make cameo appearances at the beginnings and the conclusions of academic monographs and literary biographies. As the final, albeit incomplete, offering of an author, an unfinished novel often takes on emotional poignancy and might be used as a lens through which to look back upon the rest of the writer's work and life. However, there is also some sense among academics that unfinished works are lacking not just in substance but also in finish as these works were not generally as subject to the polishing processes of revision or editing. This sense connects to a creative urge outside academia to ‘complete’ Victorian novels manifested in contemporary works such as Dan Simmons's Drood (2009) or Clare Boylan's Emma Brown (2005) which reformulate Charles Dickens's and Charlotte Brontë's work respectively. In Victorian Unfinished Novels, however, Saverio Tomaiuolo makes a strong case that these unfinished texts are worth reading and studying as significant and substantial works in their own right.
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