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.