Demonstrates the importance of attending to literary style in Victorian novels and provides exemplary readings of major novelists.

Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.

Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers-including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliv

The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essa

The Victorian Art of Fiction presents important Victorian statements on the form and function of fiction. The essays in this anthology address questions of genr