(The) Victorian novel / edited by Harold Bloom

Includes bibliography and index

Introduction -- Harold Bloom The modern values of Victorian fiction -- Lionel Stevenson Mid-century fiction: a Victorian identity: Social -problem, Religious and historical novels -- Michael Wheeler Class and money -- Julia Prewitt Brown "Introduction" to the Victorians: a major authors anthology -- Christopher S. Nassar The novel in the age of Equipoise: Wilkie Collins, Trollope, George Eliot -- Robin Gilmour The Brontes: The outsider as protagonist -- Fredrick R. Karl London by Gaslight -- S. Diana Neill Time and intersubjectivity -- J. Hillis Miller Feminine heroines: Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot -- Elaine Showalter Sexuality in the Victorian novel -- Jeff Nunokawa George Meredith, Samuel Butler, Thomas Hardy, and Theodore Watts-Dunton -- John R. Reed Wilkie Collins and Dickens -- T. S. Eliot A dialogue of self and soul: Plain Jane's progress -- Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar Dickens and Darwin -- George Levine