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Andrews, Malcolm. Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. 346 p.
"No single study of this late career of Dickens has drawn to such an extent on contemporary witnesses to the readings as well as tried to assess in some depth the significance of what Dickens called 'this new expression of the meaning of my books'."

Barber, Jill. Children in Victorian Times. London: Evans, 2006. 32 p. index illus.

Bivona, Daniel. The Imagination of Class : Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. xvi + 208 p.

Blair, Kirstie. Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart. Oxford : Clarendon, 2006. vi + 273 p. bibl index.

Bratton, J. S. The Victorian Clown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii + 273 p. illus.

Callanan, Laura. Deciphering Race: White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006. viii + 185 p.

Chase, Karen, ed. Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.
"In this collection of new essays prominent scholars address the timely questions which Middlemarch poses today, and they prepare the ground for the ongoing reconsideration of a great novel."

Colley, Ann C. Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004 228 p.
"Highly original, offering insights into the workings of Stevenson's mind gleaned from sources marginalized, overlooked, or never before assembled with these particular focal point." Choice.

Corbridge, Fiona. A Soldier's Life in Victorian Times. London: Franklin Watts, 2006. 32 p. index.

Cosslett, Tess. Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786–1914. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 170 p bibl index.
"Examination of nineteenth century debates about the human and animal in children's stories."

Davis, Michael. George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology Exploring the Unmapped Country. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 210 p. "Michael Davis aligns Eliot's work with the formulations of such key thinkers as Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, T.H. Huxley, and G.H. Lewes, showing how Eliot manipulated scientific language and pointing to the potentially theological significance of the complexity of mind."

Dawson, Terence. The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Scott, Brontë, Eliot, Wilde. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. 312p.
"Dawson offers an innovative model for psychological approaches to literary interpretation." George P. Landow.

Dever, Carolyn. Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins. Cambridge UP, 2006.
"Carolyn Dever argues that the phenomenon of the dead or missing mother in Victorian narrative is central to the construction of the good mother as a cultural ideal."

DeVine, Christine. Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
"Writers such as Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells question middle-class Victorian views of class. The book contextualizes novels by these writers."

Dolin, Tim. George Eliot. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. 304 p.
"Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed. He also explores the ways in which ‘George Eliot' has been recontextualized for modern readers and television viewers."

Ferguson, Christine. Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle: The Brutal Tongue. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 192 p. bibl index.
"Ferguson demonstrates how Darwinian accounts of 'primitive' and animal language were co-opted into wider cultural debates about the apparent brutality of popular fiction."

Flanders, Judith. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain. London: Harper Press, 2006. xvii + 604 p.

Foulkes, Richard. Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage Theatricals in a Quiet Life. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. 236 p.
Focuses on "Carroll's irresistible fascination with all things theatrical, from childhood charades and marionettes to active involvement in the dramatization of Alice."

Gallagher, Catherine. The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel. Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2006. 209 p. bibl index.

Gaunt, Richard A, ed. Lives of Victorian Political Figures: Benjamin Disraeli. Part I. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006. bibl index.

Gaunt, Richard A, ed. Lives of Victorian Political Figures: Benjamin Disraeli. Part II. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006. bibl index.

Ghosh, Peter & Goldman, Lawrence, ed. Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain: Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. vi + 267 p. bibl index.

Giebelhausen, Michaela. Painting the Bible: Representation and Belief in Mid-Victorian Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xiv + 246 p. bibl index plates illus.

Gossin, Pamela S. Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe: Astronomy and the Cosmic Heroines of his Minor and Major Novels. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007 228 p.

Gregory, E. David. Victorian Songhunters: The Recovery and Editing of English Vernacular Ballads and Folk Lyrics, 1820-1883. Lanham: Scarecrow, 2006. viii + 447 p. bibl index.

Hamilton, Susan. Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. x + 203 p.

Harrison, Kimberly & Fantina Richard, ed. Victorian Sensations : Essays on a Scandalous Genre. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. xxiii + 278 p. bibl index.

Henry, Nancy. George Eliot and the British Empire. Cambridge UP, 2006. 197 p.
"Examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature."

James, Louis. The Victorian Novel. Oxford : Blackwell, 2006. xii + 249 p. bibl index.

Knight, Mark, ed. Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700–2000. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 226 p.
"This collection considers a range of texts by authors such as Fielding, Brontë, Lawrence, Winterson, and Coupland, to delineate the multiplicity of approaches to religious concerns in their work and especially the presence of biblical narratives as subtexts."

Kostal, R. W. A. Jurisprudence of Power : Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 529 p. bibl index.

Liggins, Emma. George Gissing, the Working Woman, and Urban Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 226 p. bibl index.
"Emma Liggins considers standard works, arguing that Gissing made an important contribution to the development of urban fiction, which increasingly reflected current debates about women's presence in the city."

Luckhurst, Roger. Late Victorian Gothic Tales. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. 326 p.
"This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era."

Mandler, Peter, ed. Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xi + 254 p. bibl index.

May, Trevor. Victorian and Edwardian Prisons. Princes Risborough: Shire, 2006. 40 p.

McLean, David. Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform: Cholera, the State and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain. London: I. B. Tauris, 2006. 239 p.

Metcalfe, Alan. Leisure and Recreation in a Victorian Mining Community: The Social Economy of Leisure in North-East England, 1820-1914. London: Routledge, 2006. xvi + 204 p. bibl index.

Michie, Elsie B, ed. Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: A Casebook. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. 240p.
"Explores a range of interpretive strategies commonly, and less commonly, applied to readings of Jane Eyre. . . . Includes essays that frame the historical and social contexts out of which Jane Eyre arose, and investigate the critical reception and afterlife of the text."

Moore, Grace. Dickens and Empire: Discourses of Class, Race and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. 220 p.
"Moore's mastery of the Dickens canon (few critics have paid such close attention to Dickens's periodicals, Household Words and All the Year Round) enables her to provide cogent illustrations of his evolving attitude toward empire." Choice.

Newey, Vincent. The Scriptures of Charles Dickens Novels of Ideology, Novels of the Self. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003 328 p.
"This meticulously documented study will be a valuable guide to readers of Dickens wanting to grasp his complicated moral system." Choice.

O'Malley, Patrick R. Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. x + 279 p.

Pamela K. Gilbert. Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels. Cambridge UP, 2005. 217 p.
"Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and disease offer convincing evidence that reading was metaphorically allied with eating, contagion and sex. . . . discusses works by three novelists - M. E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and 'Ouida'."

Partridge, Michael, ed. Lives of Victorian Political Figures: Lord Palmerston. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006. bibl index.

Partridge, Michael, ed. Lives of Victorian Political Figures: William Ewart Gladstone. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006. bibl index.

Pedlar, Valerie. The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Fiction. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. 176 p.

Perry, Lara. History's Beauties: Women in the National Portrait Gallery. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. viii + 199 p. bibl index plates illus.

Purchase, Sean. Key Concepts in Victorian Literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xxi + 282 p. bibl index.

Pykett, Lyn. Wilkie Collins. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. 272 p.
"In a literary career spanning almost forty years [Collins] wrote many other works, and Lyn Pykett looks at Collins's long and varied career in relation to the changing circumstances of his own life."

Ray, Martin. Thomas Hardy Remembered. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 350 p. index.
"Assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Hardy, most of which are being reprinted for the first time."

Raymond, Claire. The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 240 p. bibl index.
"The book posits a new theory of women's writing in which it forefronts and hides the author's implied body within and behind the written work." Includes Wuthering Heights.

Richardson, LeeAnne M. New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Victorian Britain: Gender, Genre, and Empire. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. 181 p. bibl index.

Röder-Bolton, Gerlinde. George Eliot in Germany, 1854–55: ‘Cherished Memories'. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 194 p. bibl index.
"Gerlinde Röder-Bolton draws on Eliot's own writings, as well as on extensive original research in German archives and libraries, to provide the most thorough account" of Eliot's visit to Germany with George Henry Lewes.

Rogal, Samuel J., ed. Methodism Through Victorian Eyes : Leslie Stephen, W.E.H. Lecky, and Woodrow Wilson. Lewiston, N.Y. ; Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. bibl index.

Ruth, Jennifer. Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. viii + 151 p. bibl index.

Ryle, Martin & Bourne Taylor, Jenny, ed. George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. 174 p.
"This essay collection, bringing together British, European, and North American literary critics and cultural historians with diverse specialities and interests, demonstrates the range of contemporary perspectives through which his fiction can be viewed."

Shuter, Jane. Victorian Britain. Oxford: Heinemann Library, 2006. 32 p. illus.

Smith, Jonathan. Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxiii + 349 p. bibl index.

Snow, Stephanie J. Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xii + 271 p. bibl index.

Snyder, Laura J. Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x 386 p. bibl index.

Spiers, John, ed. Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xiv + 225 p. bibl index.

Spirit, Jane, ed. Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: Oscar Wilde. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006. bibl index.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales. Luckhurst, Roger, ed Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. 256 p.
"It was a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare, that has thrilled readers ever since. Also included in this edition are a number of short stories and essays of the 1880s and extracts from writings on personality disorder that set the works in their historical context."

Sutherland, John. So You Think You Know Thomas Hardy? A Literary Quizbook. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. 224 p.
"Starting with easy, factual questions the quiz progresses to find out how much you know by deduction and hypothesis- what really motivates the characters, and what is going on underneath the surface?"

Sveen, Hanna Andersdotter. "Honourable" or "Highly-sexed" : Adjectival Descriptions of Male and Female Characters in Victorian and Contemporary Children's Fiction. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2005. 180 p.

Swift, Roger. Behaving Badly? : Irish Migrants and Crime in the Victorian City. Chester: Chester Academic Press, 2006. 49 p.

Tatum, Karen F. Explaining the Depiction of Violence Against Women in Victorian Literature: Applying Julia Kristeva's Theory of Abjection to Dickens, Bronte, and Braddon. Lewiston, N.Y ; Lampeter : Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. ii + 199 p. bibl index.

Vloc, Deborah. Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre. Cambridge UP, 2006. 240 p.
"Argues that novels - and novel-readers - were in effect created by the popular theatre in the nineteenth century, and that the possibility of reading and writing narrative was conditioned by the culture of the stage."

Wilkinson, Anne. The Victorian Gardener: The Growth of Gardening & the Floral World. Flowerdew, Bob, fore. Stroud: Sutton, 2006. xx + 236 p. plates : illus.

Willis, Martin, ed. Victorian Literary Mesmerism. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006. 273 p. bibl index.

Wootton, Sarah. Consuming Keats: Nineteenth-Century Representations in Art and Literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xi + 215 p. bibl index.

Wright, T. R.,ed. Thomas Hardy on Screen. Cambridge UP, 2006. 230 p. "The essays highlight the challenging nature of Hardy's work, which finds its most powerful reflection in films by controversial directors such as Roman Polanski and Michael Winterbottom."

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