Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface General lntroduction Contexts: History, Politics, Culture Introduction Age of Victoria Architecture Body Childhood Cities and Urbanization Class Clothing Consumerism Crime and Punishment Death Decadence and Aestheticism Disease Domesticity Drugs Economics Education Empire and Imperialism Evolution Family Food and Famine Gaze Gender Gothic Individualism Industry Law Madness Music Nation Orientalism Other Pre-Raphaelitism Race Reform Religion Science Sex and Sexuality Slavery Transport Travel Violence War 2 Texts: Themes, Issues, Concepts Introduction Children's Literature Crime Fiction Drama Historical Novel Mid-Victorian Novel Non-fictional Prose Penny Dreadfuls Poetry Realist Fiction Sensation Fiction Social-problem Novel Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice Introduction Deconstruction Feminism Marxism New Historicism/Cultural Materialism Postcolonialism Postmodernism Poststructuralism Psychoanalysis Queer Theory Structuralism Chronology Index