<p>Introduction <br>Part One: The Novel Publishing World 1830-1870<br>1. Novel Publishing 1830-1870<br>2. Mass Market and Big Business: Novel Publishing at Midcentury<br>3. Craft versus Trade: Novelists and Publishers<br>Part Two: Novelists Novels and their Publishers 1830-1870<br>4. Henry Esmond: The Shaping Power of Contract<br>5. Westward Ho!: 'A Popularly Successful Book' <br>6. Trollope: Making the First Rank<br>7. Lever and Ainsworth: Missing the First Rank<br>8. Dickens as Publisher<br>9. Marketing Middlemarch<br>10. Hardy: Breaking into Fiction<br>Notes<br>Index</p>