Contents

Editors’ Preface V

Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger 0 Metamorphoses in English Culture and the Novel, 1830–1900: An Introduction 1

Part I: Systematic Questions

Phillip Mallett 1 Science and the Victorian Novel 23

Dianne F. Sadoff 2 Remediating Nineteenth-Century Narrative 51

Miriam Elizabeth Burstein 3 God on the Wane? The Victorian Novel and Religion 71

Saverio Tomaiuolo 4 Genres and Poetology: The Novel and the Way towards Aesthetic Self- Consciousness 87

Anna Maria Jones 5 The Art of Novel Writing: Victorian Theories 107

Monika Pietrzak-Franger 6 Victorian Gender Relations and the Novel 121

Nora Pleßke 7 Empire – Economy – Materiality 149

Part II: Close Readings

Natalie Roxburgh and Felix Sprang 8 Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834) 173 VIII Contents

Nils Clausson 9 Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) 189

Adina Sorian 10 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) 205

Simon Marsden 11 Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847) 221

Joanna Rostek 12 Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey (1847) 237

Linda M. Shires 13 William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847–1848) 253

Ellen Grünkemeier 14 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848) 273

Timothy L. Carens 15 Charles Kingsley, Yeast: A Problem (1851) 289

Norbert Lennartz 16 Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853) 305

J. Hillis Miller 17 Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (1858) 321

Silvia Mergenthal 18 Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) 337

Carolyn Sigler 19 Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) 351

Nadine Böhm-Schnitker 20 Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868) 367

David Seed 21 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (1871) 381 Contents IX

Ute Berns 22 George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871–1872; 1874) 397

Rebecca N. Mitchell 23 George Meredith, The Egoist (1879) 415

Julia Straub 24 Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean (1885) 431

Doris Feldmann 25 Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) 445

Susanne Bach 26 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) 461

Monika Pietrzak-Franger 27 Sarah Grand, The Heavenly Twins (1893) 479

Stephan Karschay 28 George Moore, Esther Waters (1894) 495

Anne-Julia Zwierlein 29 Mona Caird, The Daughters of Danaus (1894) 511

Martin Middeke 30 Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895) 529

Eckart Voigts 31 H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) 547

Susanne Scholz 32 Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) 565

Timo Müller 33 Henry James, What Maisie Knew (1897) 581

Jakob Lothe 34 Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900) 597 X Contents

U. C. Knoepflmacher 35 Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1900–1901) 613

Ruth Parkin-Gounelas 36 Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903) 629

Index of Subjects 645

Index of Names 659

List of Contributors 675