This book explores the extent to which four sensation novelists contributed to the Victorian redefinition of professionalism. Through an analysis of works autho

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In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, first published in 2000, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the B

Features previously unpublished material alongside famous plays This pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth cent

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