A history of Victorian literature - Adams, James Eli (Chichester, West Sussex Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
Introduction: locating Victorian literature -- "The times are unexampled": literature in the age of machinery, 1830-1850 -- Crystal palace and 'Bleak House': expansion and anomie, 1851-1873 -- The rise of mass culture and the specter of decline, 1873-1901.
Keywords: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century