The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, 4 Volume Set

• Spans the full sweep of literary genres and figures that define this influential period, combining accessibility with an unmatched breadth of coverage and authoritative scholarship
• Comprises over 330 cross-referenced entries ranging from 1,000 to 7,000 words, arranged in A-Z format
• >Brings together an impressive team of established and emerging literary scholars from around the world, including including Patrick Brantlinger, Regenia Gagnier, Catherine Gallagher, Kate Flint, and Herbert F. Tucker
• Features in-depth omnibus entries exploring major topics, including the novel, plays, poetry, and global Victorian studies, alongside succinct entries on themes such as cosmopolitanism, journalism, race, sexuality, and reading
• Explores the global influence of this literary era on countries and continents from Australia,Afghanistan, and the Arctic, to Africa, China, and the Caribbea
• Offers an indispensable resource to the current state and future directions of Victorian literature
• 2016 RUSA Outstanding Reference Sources Winner

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Dino Franco Felluga is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University. He is also the editor of BRANCH (Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History at branchcollective.org), one of the founders of the North American Victorian Studies Association (serving as its President from 2003 to 2014), and the author of The Perversity of Poetry (2006) and Critical Theory: The Key Concepts (forthcoming).

Pamela Gilbert is the Albert Brick Professor of English at the University of Florida. She has published widely in the areas of Victorian literature, cultural studies and the history of medicine. Her recent books include A Companion to Sensation Fiction (ed., Wiley, 2011).

Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University, specializing in Victorian literature and culture, with particular interests in the intersections of gender, genre, and publishing history, including the transnational circulation of texts. She is co-editor of the 4-volume A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi (with Sharon M. Harris, 2013).

Volume I

List of Entries vii

About the Editors xiii

List of Contributors xv

Introduction xxvii

Acknowledgments xxxi

Victorian Literature A–D 1

Volume II

Victorian Literature E–L 487

Volume III

Victorian Literature M–P 967

Volume IV

Victorian Literature R–Z 1399

Index 1803