Beginnings. The Early 19th-Century English Novel, 1820-1836 / Peter Garside -- New Histories of English Literature and the Rise of the Novel, 1835-1859 / William McKelvy -- Genre, Criticism and the Early Victorian Novel / Rebecca Edwards Newman -- Publishing, Reading, Reviewing, Quoting, Censoring. Publishing the Victorian Novel / Rachel Sagner Buurma -- The Victorian Novel and Its Readers / Debra Gettelman -- The Victorian Novel and the Reviews / Solveig C. Robinson -- The Victorian Novel and the OED / Lynda Mugglestone -- The Novel and Censorship in Late-Victorian England / Barbara Leckie -- The Victorian Novel Elsewhere. Victorian Novels in France / Marie-Francoise Cachin -- Victorian Literature and Russian Culture: Translation, Reception, Influence, Affinity / Julie Buckler -- The Victorian Novel and America / Amanda Claybaugh -- Colonial India and Victorian Storytelling / Margery Sabin -- Technologies: Communication, Travel, Visual. The Victorian Novel and Communication Networks / Richard Menke -- Technologies of Travel and the Victorian Novel / Alison Byerly -- Victorian Photography and the Novel / Jennifer Green-Lewis -- The Middle. Novels of the 1860s / Janice Carlisle -- Commerce, Work, Professions. Industrialism and the Victorian Novel / Evan Horwitz -- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Money: Max Weber, Silas Marner, and the Victorian Novel / George Levine -- The Novel and the Professions / Jennifer Ruth -- Gentleman's Latin, Lady's Greek / Kenneth Haynes -- The Novel and Other Disciplines. The Victorian Novel and Science / Jonathan Smith -- The Victorian Novel and Medicine / Meegan Kennedy -- Naturalizing the Mind in the Victorian Novel: Consciousness in Wilkie Collins's Poor Miss Finch and Thomas Hardy's Woodlanders Two Case Studies / Suzy Anger -- The Victorian Novel and the Law / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- The Novel and Religion: Catholicism and Victorian Women's Novels / Patrick R. O'Malley -- The Victorian Novel and Horticulture / Lynn Voskuil -- The Victorian Novel and Theater / Emily Allen -- Poetry and Criticism. Verse Versus the Novel / James Najarian -- Poetic Allusion and the Novel / Philip Horne -- The Novelist as Critic / Christopher Ricks -- Distinguishing the Victorian Novel. The Moral Scope of the English Bildungsroman / Julia Prewitt Brown -- Three Matters of Style / Mark Lambert -- Endings. The Novel, its Critics, and the University: A New Beginning? / Anna Vaninskaya -- The Victorian Novel and the New Woman / Talia Schaffer -- The Last Victorian Novel. Slapstick Noir: The Secret Agent Works the Victorian Novel / Rosemarie Bodenheimer -- The Quest of the Silver Fleece, by W.E.B. Du Bois / Daniel Hack.