The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "chil

This book produces an original argument about the emergence of ‘trauma’ in the nineteenth-century through new readings of Dickens, Emily and Charlotte Bront

This book presents a broad range of original data on childhood in Victorian Britain. It combines a social science approach to data with historical context, resu

This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essa