Description: One-stop resource offering a complete textbook for courses in Victorian literature - provides students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major authors and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches; directions of new research.
Brief description: Martin Willis is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University, UK.
Review Quotes: "It is strikingly different from its competitors in ways which will be useful to our students; in particular in its closing section it stands back from single author or single topic discussions and gives the kind of overview of Victorian criticism, recent and particularly present, which students have little time to acquire during their courses, but would find really useful..." - Ian Campbell, University of Edinburgh, UK