ACompaniontotheVictorianNovel维多利亚时代小说指南

作者介绍：Patrick Brantlinger
　　Patrick Brantlinger is Rudy Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (1998), Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain 1694–1994 (1996), Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism 1830–1914 (1990), and Crusoe’s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (1990).  

This Companion introduces readers to the historical contexts in which the vast range of Victorian fiction was produced and to the critical debates that have raged about it ever since.