Drawing on recent work in critical theory, feminism, and social history, this book explains the relationship between the novel and the emergent commodity culture of Victorian England, using the image ...

He lived in the Victorian age ... Dickens became very famous. He travelled the country reading to crowds. His books made readers think about the lives of the poor and the terrible conditions ...

Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and ...