Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction to Victorian Literature: Perspectives, Relationships, Contexts -- Chapter 1 Novel Sensations in Early and Mid-Victorian Fiction: From 'Boz' to Middlemarch -- Chapter 2 Theatrical Exchanges: Gendered Subjectivity and Identity Trials in the Dramatic Imagination -- Chapter 3 Poetry: Dramatic Monologues and Critical Dialogues -- Chapter 4 Victorians in Critical Time: Fin de Siècle and Sage-culture -- Conclusion: Neo-Victorianism, Postmodernism and Underground Cultures -- Student Resources -- Index.