General Introduction, Anne Longmuir and Lee BehlmanPart 1. Victorian Poetry and FormIntroduction 1. Rereading Victorian Poetry, Isobel Armstrong 2. The Fix of Form: an Open Letter, Herbert F. Tucker 3. Physiological Poetics; Patmore, Hopkins and the Uncertain Body of Victorian Poetry, Jason R. Rudy4. Victorian Poetry and Form, Charles LaPortePart 2. Women Poets and the Poetess TraditionIntroduction5. Canonization through Dispossession: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the "Pythian Shriek," Tricia Lootens 6. Rewriting a History of the Lyre: Letitia Landon, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the (Re)construction of the Nineteenth-Century Woman Poet, Linda H. Peterson 7. Atheist Prophecy: Mathilde Blinde, Constance Naden, and the Victorian Poetess, Charles LaPorte 8. Women Poets and the Poetess Tradition, Linda K. HughesPart 3. Realism and PhotographyIntroduction9. What is Real in Realism?, Nancy Armstrong 10. Information Unveiled, Richard Menke 11. Composing the Novel Body: Re-Membering the Body and the Text in Little Dorrit, Daniel Novak 12. Realism and Photography, Jennifer Green-LewisPart 4. Genre Fiction and the Sensational Introduction13. Marketing Affect: The Nineteenth-Century Sensation Novel, Ann Cvetkovich 14. The Abhuman; Chaotic Bodies, Kelly Hurley 15. Toward a Sensational Theory of Criticism; Sensation fiction Theorizes Masochism, Anna Maria Jones 16. Genre fiction and the Sensational, Pamela K. GilbertPart 5. Religion and LiteratureIntroduction17. Christina Rossetti and the Doctrine of Reserve, Emma Mason 18. Orthodox Narratives of Literary Sacralization, William R. McKelvy 19. Sacrifice and the Sufferings of the Substitute: Dickens and the Atonement Controversy of the 1850s, Jan-Melissa Schramm 20. Religion and Literature, Mark KnightPart 6. Darwin and Victorian CultureIntroduction21. The Remnant of the Mythical; Fit and Misfitting: Anthropomorphism and the Natural Order, Gillian Beer 22. Dickens and Darwin, George Levine 23. Conversation on Creation, James Secord 24. Darwinian Science and Victorian Respectability, Gowan Dawson 25. Darwin and Victorian Culture, Jonathan SmithPart 7. Psychology and LiteratureIntroduction26. Villette: "the Surveillance of a Sleepless Eye," Sally Shuttleworth 27. The Discourse of Physiology in General Biology, Rick Rylance 28. The Psyche in Pain; Dream and trance: Gaskell’s North and South as a "Condition of Consciousness" Novel, Jill Matus 29. Psychology and Literature, Michael DavisPart 8. Gender, Sexuality, DomesticityIntroduction30. The Female Relations of Victorian England, Sharon Marcus 31. The Curious Princess, the Novel, and the Law, Hilary M. Schor 32. Revelation in the Divorce Court, Deborah Cohen 33. Gender, Sexuality, Domesticity, Melissa Valiska GregoryPart 9. Disinterestedness and LiberalismIntroduction34. Forms of Detachment, Amanda Anderson 35. Is there a Pastor in the House? Sanitary Reform and Governing Agency in Dickens’s Midcentury Fiction, Lauren M. E. Goodlad 36. A Frame of Mind: Signature Liberalism at the Fortnightly Review, Elaine Hadley 37. Disinterestedness and Liberalism, Daniel S. MalachukPart 10. Imperialism and Literature in the Age of ColonialismIntroduction38. Introduction to Kim, Edward Said 39. Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914, Patrick Brantlinger 40. Missionary men and Morant Bay 1859-1866, Catherine Hall 41. Fantasy and Ideology, John Kucich 42. Imperialism and Literature in the Age of Colonialism, Muireann O'CinneidePart 11. Economics, the Market, and Victorian CultureIntroduction43. Daniel Deronda and the Afterlife of Ownership, Jeff Nunokawa 44. The Bioeconomics of Our Mutual Friend, Catherine Gallagher 45. Literary Appropriations, Mary Poovey 46. Economics, the Market, and Victorian Culture, Jill RappoportPart 12. Print CultureIntroduction47. The Advantage of Fiction: the Novel and the "Success" of the Victorian Periodical, Laurel Brake 48. The Age of Newspapers, Matthew Rubery 49. The Book as Go-Between: Domestic Service and Forced Reading, Leah Price 50. Print Culture, Jennifer Phegley