Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Editor's Preface Timeline of Historical Events  Introduction Historical Events Society, Politics and Class  Gender and Sexuality Religion and Belief Philosophy and Ideas Arts and Aesthetics Popular Culture Literary Production and Reception Empire, Race and Postcolonialism Science and Technology Further Reading Index.

Promotional Information

'An excellent anthology of Victorian source materials...well organised, lucidly introduced and broad in outlook'. - Gail Marshall, Professor of Victorian Literature and Director of the Victorian Studies Centre, University of Leicester, UK. 'A portable infinity. It is difficult to imagine a course on nineteenth-century British literature that could not make ample use of the touchstones gathered here-or a Victorianist who could fail to be astonished by the strange salvage this book mixes with the familiar.' - Paul Saint-Amour, Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

About the Author

JOHN PLUNKETT Senior Lecturer in English, University of Exeter, UK. His publications include Queen Victoria - First Media Monarch and Victorian Print Media: A Reader (both Oxford University Press). ANA VADILLO Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her publications include Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity (London: Palgrave, 2005) and Mapping Women's Poetries at the Fin de Siècle (co-ed with Marion Thain) Special Issue for the Journal of Victorian Literature and Culture 34:2. REGENIA GAGNIER Professor of English and Director of Exeter Interdisciplinary Institute, University of Exeter, UK. ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON Senior Lecturer in English, University of Exeter, UK. RICK RYLANCE Professor of English and Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Literature, University of Exeter, UK. PAUL YOUNG Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture, Department of English, University of Exeter, UK.

Reviews

'An excellent anthology of Victorian source materials...well organised, lucidly introduced and broad in outlook'. - Gail Marshall, Professor of Victorian Literature and Director of the Victorian Studies Centre, University of Leicester, UK. 'A portable infinity. It is difficult to imagine a course on nineteenth-century British literature that could not make ample use of the touchstones gathered here-or a Victorianist who could fail to be astonished by the strange salvage this book mixes with the familiar.' - Paul Saint-Amour, Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA.