
He is the author of, among other works, Aestheticism and Sexual Parody and Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film. Dennis Denisoff is McFarlin Endowed Chair of English at the University of Tulsa. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion.

This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today.


THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE 3 Short Forms: Serialization and Short Fictionħ Gothic, Horror, and the Weird: Shifting Paradigmsġ5 Radical Print Culture: From Chartism to SocialismĢ1 The Future of Economic Criticisms PastĢ8 The Concept of Class in Victorian StudiesĢ9 Race: Tracing the Contours of a Long Nineteenth Centuryģ3 British Psychology in the Nineteenth Centuryģ4 Anthropology and Classical Evolutionismģ9 Regionalism and Provincialism: Where Is the Local?
