Description
Book Synopsisaeo Will serve students as a readable introduction and useful reference volume throughout their Victorian studies. aeo Includes extensive bibliographies directing the student to further reading. aeo Examines Victorian literature in its cultural and historical context.
Trade Review"Each of the very varied contributions - there are 29 of them in all - is well equipped with exhaustive and up-to-date bibliographies, invaluable for further studies. There is also an excellent index. Altogether, therefore, this is an admirable and enduring book, which should certainly be added to the reference departments of all self-respecting university libraries - and a great many civic and municipal libraries, as well."
Languages and Literature
"This book has been planned to meet both short-term and long-range needs. It is a reference work for consultation. "
The Victorian Newsletter "...Tucker's Companion, with its extensive range of topics (some truly original and rarely dealt with in similar books), its well-documented essays, and constant degree of serious scholarship, apears indeed as an extremely valuable tool for students and scholars alike, and a major contribution to Victorian criticism." The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association
Table of ContentsIntroduction x
Notes on Contributors xiv
Part One History in Focus
1 1832 3
Lawrence Poston
2 1848 19
Antony H. Harrison
3 1870 35
Linda K. Hughes
4 1897 51
Stephen Arata
Part Two Passages of Life
5 Growing Up: Childhood 69
Claudia Nelson
6 Moving Out: Adolescence 82
Chris R. Vanden Bossche
7 Growing Old: Age 97
Teresa Mangum
8 Passing On: Death 110
Gerhard Joseph and Herbert F. Tucker
9 Victorian Sexualities 125
James Eli Adams Copyrighted Material
Part Three Walks of Life
10 Clerical 141
Christine L. Krueger
11 Legal 155
Simon Petch
12 Medical 170
Lawrence Rothfield
13 Military 183
John R. Reed
14 Educational 194
Thomas William Heyck
15 Administrative 212
Robert Newsom
16 Financial 225
Christina Crosby
17 Industrial 244
Herbert Sussman
18 Commercial 258
Jennifer Wicke
19 Spectacle 276
Joss Marsh
20 Publishing 289
Richard D. Altick
Part Four Kinds of Writing
21 Poetry 307
E. Warwick Slinn
22 Fiction 323
Hilary Schor
23 Drama 339
Alan Fischler
24 Life Writing 356
Timothy Peltason
25 Sage Writing 373
Linda H. Peterson
Notes Contents Contributors ix
26 Literary Criticism 388
David E. Latané, Jr
Part Five Borders
27 Under Victorian Skins: The Bodies Beneath 407
Helena Michie
28 On the Parapets of Privacy 425
Karen Chase and Michael Levenson
29 “Then on the Shore of the Wide World”: The Victorian Nation and its Others 438
James Buzard
General Subject Index 456
Index of Victorian Works 481
