1 Contexts：History,Politics,Culture 1
Introduction 1
Age of Victoria 2
Architecture 7
Body 12
Childhood 15
Cities and Urbanization 19
Class 22
Clothing 25
Consumerism 28
Crime and Punishment 31
Death 34
Decadence and Aestheticism 37
Disease 41
Domesticity 44
Drugs 48
Economics 50
Education 53
Empire and Imperialism 56
Evolution 60
Family 64
Food and Famine 67
Gaze 70
Gender 73
Gothic 78
Individualism 81
Industry 86
Law 89
Madness 92
Music 96
Nation 99
Orientalism 102
Other 105
Pre-Raphaelitism 108
Race 112
Reform 116
Religion 119
Science 122
Sex and Sexuality 125
Slavery 129
Transport 132
Travel 135
Violence 138
War 141
2 Texts：Themes,Issues,Concepts 145
Introduction 145
Children's Literature 154
Crime Fiction 158
Drama 161
Historical Novel 164
Mid-Victorian Novel 168
Non-fictional Prose 171
Penny Dreadfuls 178
Poetry 181
Realist Fiction 185
Sensation Fiction 188
Social-problem Novel 191
3 Criticism：Approaches,Theory,Practice 195
Introduction 195
Deconstruction 208
Feminism 213
Marxism 217
New Historicism/Cultural Materialism 221
Postcolonialism 226
Postmodernism 231
Poststructuralism 235
Psychoanalysis 240
Queer Theory 246
Structuralism 250
Chronology 257
Index 269