My Victorian Novel: Critical Essays in the Personal Voice

The previously unpublished essays collected here are by literary scholars who have dedicated their lives to reading and studying nineteenth-century British fiction and the Victorian world. Each writes about a novel that has acquired personal relevance to them––a work that has become entwined with their own story, or that remains elusive or compelling for reasons hard to explain.

These are essays in the original sense of the word, attempts: individual and experiential approaches to literary...