Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon

<div><br></div><div>Introduction: Exploring the Hinterland of Victorian Fiction; Daragh Downes and Trish Ferguson.-&nbsp;Chapter 2. Prize Novelists and Condensed Novels: Thackeray and Bret Harte; Michael Slater.- Chapter 3. Before New Grub Street: Thomas Miller and the Contingencies of Authorship;&nbsp;Adam Abraham.- Chapter&nbsp;4. Emboldening the Weak: the Early Fiction of James Anthony Froude;&nbsp;Ciaran Brady.- Chapter&nbsp;5.&nbsp;George Borrow: The Scholar, The Gipsy, The Priest; Monika Mazurek.- Chapter&nbsp;6.&nbsp;Sensation Fiction as Social Activism:&nbsp;Charles Reade’s It Is Never Too Late to Mend&nbsp;and Felicia Skene’s Hidden Depths;&nbsp;Elizabeth Andrews.- Chapter&nbsp;7. Sheer Luck, Holmes? Clues towards Canon Formation in Victorian Detective Fiction;&nbsp;Daragh Downes.- Chapter&nbsp;8. Politics of the Strange and Unusual:&nbsp;Mesmerism and the Medical Professional in&nbsp;Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s ‘Dr Carrick’ (1878);&nbsp;Samantha J. M. Aliu.-Chapter&nbsp;9.&nbsp;Silas K. Hocking, Her Benny, and the Poetics of the Prolific;&nbsp;Christopher Pittard.- Chapter&nbsp;10.&nbsp;Henry Hawley Smart's The Great Tontine and the Art of Book-making;&nbsp;Trish Ferguson.- Chapter&nbsp;11.&nbsp;Performative Politics and Gendered Geography in <the prophet’s="" mantle;&nbsp;The Prophet’s Mantle; Matthew Ingleby.- Chapter&nbsp;12. Richard Marsh and the Realist Gothic: Pursuing Traces of an Evasive Author in his&nbsp;Fin-de-Siècle Popular Fiction;&nbsp;Ailise Bulfin.- Chapter&nbsp;13.&nbsp;Dat Cura Commodum or A Portrait of a Deviant Mind:&nbsp;Arthur Griffiths’s The Rome Express,&nbsp;John Milne’s ‘The Express Series’ and Late Victorian Detective Fiction;&nbsp;Paul Raphael Rooney.- Bibliography.-&nbsp;</div><div><br></div>