This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.Acknowledgements xv
Textual Note xix
Introduction 1
1. Early Criticism of the Victorian Novel from James Oliphant to David Cecil 17
The State of the Novel in 1900.
University Study of Victorian Literature.
Principles of Literary History.
The Approach of George Saintsbury.
Extract from Saintsbury's The English Novel (1913).
E.M. Forster and Critiquing Literary History.
The Modernist Construction of Victorian Fiction.
David Cecil's View of Victorian Novels and Culture.
Extract from Cecil's Early Victorian Novelists (1934).
Further Reading.
2. F.R. Leavis and The Great Tradition 46
Outline of the Chapter.
Leavis's Influence.
The Principles of Leavis' Criticism.
The Idea of Tradition.
1980s' Reactions to the Politics of Leavis' Criticism.
The Principles of Leavis' The Great Tradition (1948).
Its Treatment of Dickens and Leavis' Later Views on Him.
Extract from The Great Tradition.
Further Reading.
3. Feminism and the Victorian Novel in the 1970s 66
The Influence of 1970s' Feminism.
Outline of the Chapter.
Ellen Moers' Literary Women (1976).
Elaine Showalter and the Female Tradition.
Discussion of Showalter'slƒj
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