Acknowledgments ; List of Contributors ; List of Illustrations ; List of Tables ; General Editor's Preface ; Introduction ; Editorial Note ; Note on British Currency before Decimalization ; PART I: NOVELISTS, READERS, AND THE FICTION INDUSTRY ; 1. The Publishing Industry ; 2. Readers and Reading Practices ; 3. The Professionalization of Authorship ; PART II: VARIETIES AND GENRES ; 4. The Historical Novel ; 5. Gothic Fictions in the Nineteenth Century ; 6. The English Bildungsroman ; 7. The Silver Fork Novel ; 8. The Newgate Novel ; 9. The Sensation Novel ; 10. Children's Fiction ; 11. The Domestic Novel ; PART III: MAJOR AUTHORS IN CONTEXT ; 12. Charles Dickens: The Novelist as Public Figure ; 13. The Brontes and the Transformations of Romanticism ; 14. George Eliot and Intellectual Culture ; PART IV: NARRATIVE STRUCTURES AND STRATEGIES ; 15. Short Fiction and the Novel ; 16. Multiple Narrators and Multiple Plots ; 17. Addressing the Reader: The Autobiographical Voice ; 18. Realism and Theories of the Novel ; 19. Theatricality and the Novel ; 20. Aesthetic Theories ; PART V: THE NATION AND ITS BOUNDARIES ; 21. Modernization and the Organic Society ; 22. Place, Region, and Migration ; 23. The Novel and Empire ; 24. Nationalism and National Identities ; 25. International Influences ; PART VI: CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS ; 26. Radicalism and Reform ; 27. Parliament and the State ; 28. Science and the Novel ; 29. Religion and the Novel ; 30. Psychology and the Idea of Character ; 31. Gender Identities and Relationships ; Bibliography