This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

The essays in this collection show how the conventions of realism were transformed by new ideas about gender and race.

Professor Wheeler's widely-acclaimed survey of the nineteenth-century fiction covers both the major writers and their works and encompasses the genres and "mino

The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fictio