Victorian Nonfiction Prose

<p> The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers editors publishers and reviewers to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these works offer fundamental often surprising insights into Victorian society. Why for example did the innocuously titled <I>Essays and Reviews</I> (1860) trigger public outrage? How did Eliza Lynn Linton become the first salaried woman journalist in England? What is table-talk?</p><p> Critical approaches to Victorian prose have long focused on a few canonical writers. Recent scholarship has recognized a wide diversity of practitioners forms and modes of dissemination. Presented in accessible A-Z format this literary companion reinstates nonfiction as a principal vehicle of knowledge and debate in Victorian Britain.</p>