This book includes essays on writers from the 1840s to the 1890s, well known writers such as Anne Bronte, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker, lesser known writers such as Geraldine Jewsbury, Charles Reade, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, Sarah Grand and Mary Ward. The contributors explore important thematic concerns: the relation between private and public realms; gender and social class; sexuality and the marketplace; and male and female cultural identity.
Sixteen scholars critically read Victorian authors who have been traditionally "underread," arguing to accord these writers and their works deeper attention. Some of the writers are familiar (Anne Brontd, Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker) and some virtually unknown (Geraldine Jewsbury, Charles Reade, Ma
