Reading the Victorian novel: Detail into form

Cover......Page 1
Copyright page......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction by Ian Gregor......Page 11
1  Readings of Melodrama by Michael Irwin......Page 17
2  Wilkie Collins and the Crisis of Suspense by David Blair......Page 34
Interchapter 1......Page 53
3  'Bound in Moss and Cloth': Reading a Long Victorian Novel by Graham Clarke......Page 56
4  The Mill on the Floss: 'Memory' and the Reading Experience by A. Robert Lee......Page 74
5  Reading a Story: Sequence, Pace, and Recollection by Ian Gregor......Page 94
6  'The Past-marked Prospect': The Mayor of Casterbridge by Rod Edmond......Page 113
Interchapter 2......Page 130
7  Jane Eyre and 'The Warped System of Things' by Doreen Roberts......Page 133
8  Reading David Copperfield by Keith Carabine......Page 152
9  The Voicing of Fictions by Mark Kinkead-Weekes......Page 170
Interchapter 3......Page 195
10  Reading Illustrations: Pictures in David Copperfield by Stephen Lutman......Page 198
11  The Portrayal of Death and 'Substance of Life': Aspects of the Modern Reader's response to 'Victorianism' by W. L. G. James......Page 228
12  A Note on Serialisation by Malcolm Andrews......Page 245
Interchapter 4......Page 250
13  'The Flash of Fervour': Daniel Deronda by Ruth Raider......Page 255
14  Beyond the Victorians: The Portrait of a Lady by Stuart Hutchinson......Page 276
15  News from Nowhere: Detail and Desire by Bernard Sharratt......Page 290
Interchapter 5......Page 308
Index......Page 313