Victorian novel emerges, 1800-1840 / Periodicals and syndication / Book publishing and the Victorian literary marketplace / Victorian illustrators and illustration / Nineteenth-century political novel / Sociological contexts of Victorian fiction / Faith, religion, and the nineteenth-century novel / Philosophy and the Victorian literary aesthetic / Science and the scientist in Victorian fiction / Law and the Victorian novel / Intoxication and the Victorian novel / Ghosts and hauntings in the Victorian novel / Victorian gothic / Victorian detective fiction / Victorian social problem novel / Victorian sensation novel / Victorian juvenilia / Moving pictures : film and the representation of Victorian fictions / Religion in the novels of Charlotte and Anne Brontë / Victorian professionalism and Charlotte Brontë's Villette / Charles Dickens / George Eliot : critical responses to Daniel Deronda / George Eliot's reading revolution and the mythical school of criticism / Thomas Hardy / Vanities of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity fair / Anthony Trollope and "classic realism" / George Meredith at the crossways / "Not burying the one talent" : Mrs. Gaskell's life of duty / Wilkie Collins's challenges to pre-Raphaelite gender constructs / Postcolonial readings / Feminist criticism and the nineteenth-century novel / Otherness and identity in the Victorian novel