Table of Contents

Alphabetical List of Entries vii

List of Entries by Topic ix

Editors xi

Board of Advisors xii

Contributors xiv

Introduction xvii

Acknowledgments xx

The Novel A–Z 1

Index of Novelists 691

General Index 736

About the Author

Peter Melville Logan is Professor of English at TempleUniversity, USA and Director of the Center for the Humanities atTemple. He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature,critical theory, the history of the novel, and the history ofscience. He is the author of Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals andPrimitives (2009) and Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History ofHysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (1997), as well asarticles on Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and othernovelists. Olakunle George is Associate Professor of English andAfricana Studies at Brown University, USA, where he teaches Africanliterary and cultural studies, Afro-Diasporic cultural criticism,and Anglo-American literary theory. He is the author of RelocatingAgency: Modernity and African Letters (2003) and articles inComparative Literature Studies, Diacritics, Novel: A Forum onFiction, and Representations. Susan Hegeman is Professor of English at theUniversity of Florida, USA, where she specializes intwentieth-century American literature, popular culture, culturalhistory, and critical theory. She is the author of Patterns forAmerica: Modernism and the Concept of Culture (1999) and TheCultural Return (2012).