1 Contexts：History,Politics,Culture

Introduction

Age of Victoria

Architecture

Body

Childhood

Cities and Urbanization

Class

Clothing

Consumerism

Crime and Punishment

Death

Decadence and Aestheticism

Disease

Domesticity

Drugs

Economics

Education

Empire and Imperialism

Evolution

Family

Food and Famine

Gaze

Gender

Gothic

Individualism

Industry

Law

Madness

Music

Nation

Orientalism

Other

Pre-Raphaelitism

Race

Reform

Religion

Science

Sex and Sexuality

Slavery

Transport

Travel

Violence

War

2 Texts：Themes,Issues,Concepts

Introduction

Children's Literature

Crime Fiction

Drama

Historical Novel

Mid-Victorian Novel

Non-fictional Prose

Penny Dreadfuls

Poetry

Realist Fiction

Sensation Fiction

Social-problem Novel

3 Criticism：Approaches,Theory,Practice

Introduction

Deconstruction

Feminism

Marxism

New Historicism/Cultural Materialism

Postcolonialism

Postmodernism

Poststructuralism

Psychoanalysis

Queer Theory

Structuralism

Chronology

Index