Victorian Fiction by John Sutherland

A lively critical survey of nineteenth‑century English novels that traces how changing social conditions, the rise of periodical publishing and a growing commercial market reshaped literary form and themes; it examines major genres and movements—realism, sensation fiction, the social problem novel—and shows how writers, publishers and readers interacted over issues of class, gender, morality and empire, arguing that Victorian fiction was both a cultural response to and an engine of social change.