Table of Contents

Introduction: Novels and their readers; Part 1: 1830-1855: Living with the city; Part 2: 1856-1870: Questions of identity; Part 3: 1871-1885: Democracy and its discontents; Part 4: 1886-1901: 'Fin de siScle? Fin du globe'; Extracts; Time line; Bibliography; Index.

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Short, readable and affordable introduction to Victorian fiction Conceived with the new AS and A-level criteria in mind Includes a range of pedagogic devices, including original documents

About the Author

Gail Marshall is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK