Foreword by Jane Tompkins
Introduction: In the Personal Voice / Annette R. Federico
1. Identifying as a Reader / Andrea Kaston Tange : On Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
2. Mourning Glencora / Deborah Denenholz Morse : On The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
3. A Skeptical Education / Terrance Riley : On The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Victorian Fable-Lands / So Young Park : On The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray
5. "What do I think of glory?" / Beverley Park Rilett : On Middlemarch by George Eliot
6. Unhinged / Ellen Rosenman : On Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
7. Words Like Violence / Sara Malton : On The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
8. Stock Exchanges / Jonathan Farina : On Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
9. An Ethics of Place / Mary-Catherine Harrison : On North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
9. What Esther Thinks About Sex / Catherine Robson On Bleak House by Charles Dickens
11. Liking David Copperfield / Michael J. Flynn : On David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
12. Endless Circling, Perpetual Beginning / Tom Ue On New Grub Street by George Gissing
13. Let to a Single Gentleman / Lillian Nayder On The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
14. Bedtime Reading / Narin Hassan On Dracula by Bram Stoker
15. The Hand of Fate / Annette R. Federico : Annette R. Federico On Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.