Pt.1 Historical contexts and cultural issues. The publishing world / Kelly J. Mays
Education, literacy, and the Victorian reader / Jonathan Rose
Money, the economy, and social class / Regenia Gagnier
Victorian psychology / Athena Vrettos
Empire, race, and the Victorian novel / Deirdre David
The Victorian novel and religion / Hilary Fraser
Scientific ascendancy / John Kucich
Technology and information: accelerating developments / Christopher Keep
Laws, the legal world, and politics / John R. Reed
Gender politics and women's rights / Hilary M. Schor
The other arts: Victorian visual culture / Jeffrey Spear
Imagined audiences: the novelist and the stage / Renata Kobetts Miller. pt.2 Forms of the Victorian novel. Newgate novel to detective fiction / F.S. Schwarzbach
The historical novel / John Bowen
The sensation novel / Winifred Hughes
The bildungsroman / John R. Maynard
The Gothic romance in the Victorian period / Cannon Schmitt
The provincial or regional novel / Ian Duncan
Industrial and "condition of England" novels / James Richard Simmons, Jr.
Children's fiction / Lewis C. Roberts
Victorian science fiction / Patrick Brantlinger. pt.3 Victorian and modern theories of the novel and the reception of novels and novelists then and now. The receptions of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy / Elizabeth Langland
Victorian theories of the novel / Joseph W. Childers
Modern and postmodern theories of prose fiction / Audrey Jaffe
The afterlife of the Victorian novel: novels about novels / Anne Humpherys
The Victorian novel in film and on television / Joss Marsh, Kamilla Elliott.