Titlebook: Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon; Daragh Downes,Trish Ferguson Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 John Suthe

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Introduction: Exploring the Hinterland of Victorian Fiction,ry idea of canonicity in that period, when there was a vogue for ‘Best Books’ lists. They explore the challenge of establishing apt criteria for the selection of neglected and forgotten novels, and highlight that what should remain of paramount concern in such a scholarly endeavour is the question o

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Prize Novelists and Condensed Novels: Thackeray and Bret Harte,ray’s ‘Punch’s Prize Novelists’, appeared in the comic weekly . in 1847, and included brilliant parodies of Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, Charles Lever and the ‘silver fork’ novelist Mrs Gore. Twenty years later, the American writer Bret Harte’s comparably witty series called ‘Condensed Novels’ began app

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George Borrow: The Scholar, The Gipsy, The Priest,is later books . (1851) and . (1857). The later books, however, were rediscovered by the later generation of Edwardian readers and writers, who were fascinated by the figure of “Borrow” as described in these quasi-autobiographical texts: an outsider roaming England as an itinerant tinker, making fri

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Politics of the Strange and Unusual: Mesmerism and the Medical Professional in Mary Elizabeth Braddent perception of mesmerism as supernatural quackery or orthodox scientific, therapeutic practice. Using mesmerism to critique the medical establishment, Braddon effectively challenges science’s increasing cultural authority and encroachment on the domestic sphere. Braddon addresses the power dynami

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Silas K. Hocking, ,, and the Poetics of the Prolific,riting in conveying truth. They do so in a thematic focus on acts of reading, and in a style that moves between plain, unornamented prose, and metaphors of religious experience. Contemporary critics dismissed ‘Silas K. Hocking English’ as popular fiction’s failure to produce innovative prose; this c

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,Henry Hawley Smart’s , and the Art of Book-Making,roctor sought to demonstrate the immorality of gambling. This chapter will not only examine Smart’s fiction in the context of contemporary debates about gambling, but also with speculation in the literary marketplace at a time when Samuel Smiles suggested that a writer of popular literature could at