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No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact:  \nChelsea House  \nAn imprint of Infobase Publishing  \n132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001  \nISBN-10: 0-7910-7678-4  \nISBN-13: 978-0-7910-7678-1  \nFor Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data, please contact the publisher.  \nISBN: 0-7910-7678-4  \nChelsea House books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755.  \nYou can find Chelsea House on the World Wide Web at [http://www.chelseahouse.com](http://www.chelseahouse.com)  \nContributing Editor: Amy Sickels Cover designed by Terry Mallon  \nCover photo “Christmas Morn” by W.C. Bauer. Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-2023  \nPrinted in the United States of America IBT EJB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3  \nThis book is printed on acid-free paper.  \nContents  \nEditor’s Note vii  \nIntroduction 1  \nHarold Bloom  \nThe Modern Values of Victorian Fiction 47  \nLionel Stevenson  \nMid-Century Fiction: A Victorian Identity:  \nSocial-Problem, Religious and Historical Novels 53  \nMichael Wheeler  \nClass and Money 69  \nJulia Prewitt Brown  \n“Introduction” to The Victorians: A Major Authors Anthology 91  \nChristopher S. Nassaar  \nThe Novel in the Age of Equipoise: Wilkie Collins, 103  \nTrollope, George Eliot  \nRobin Gilmour  \nThe Brontës: The Outsider as Protagonist 147  \nFrederick R. Karl  \nLondon by Gaslight 171  \nS. Diana Neill  \nTime and Intersubjectivity 201  \nJ. Hillis Miller  \nFeminine Heroines: Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot 217  \nElaine Showalter  \nSexuality in the Victorian Novel 243  \nJeff Nunokawa  \nGeorge Meredith, Samuel Butler, Thomas Hardy, 269  \nand Theodore Watts-Dunton  \nJohn R. Reed  \nvi Contents  \nWilkie Collins and Dickens 307  \nT.S. Eliot  \nA Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane’s Progress 315  \nSandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar  \nDickens and Darwin 349  \nGeorge Levine  \nChronology 385  \nContributors 391  \nBibliography 395  \nAcknowledgments 399  \nIndex 401  \nEditor’s Note  \nMy Introduction begins with a discussion of the relationship between Thackeray the narrator and Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, and then passes to what Ruskin called “stage fire” in Dickens, particularly as manifested in two of his masterpieces, David Copperfield and Bleak House. Following is an analysis of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre as Byronic “Northern romances.” George Eliot’s Middlemarch, perhaps Bleak House’s true rival as the greatest novel of the age, is read here as a romance of the Protestant Will. My Introduction then concludes with exegeses oftwo of Thomas Hardy’s strongest novels, The Return of the Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge.  \nLionel Stevenson finds in Victorian fiction most of the aesthetic values that so many of us consider “Modern,” after which Michael Wheeler attempts to locate the starting-points of the Victorian sensibility.  \nIn a shrewd essay, Julia Prewitt Brown examines the complex relations between finances and marriage in early Victorian fiction, while Christopher S. Nassaar gives us a useful overview of social contexts in the Victorian novel.  \nRobin Gilmour deftly juxtaposes Wilkie Collins, Trollope, and George Eliot, while Frederick R. 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