An anthology�of both familiar and�previously�unavailable�primary texts that�illuminate the world of�nineteenth-century ideas. An expert team introduce and annotate a range of original social, cultural, political and historical documents necessary for contextualising key literary texts from the Victorian period.

JOHN PLUNKETT Senior Lecturer in English, University of Exeter, UK. His publications include Queen Victoria - First Media Monarch and Victorian Print Media: A Reader (both Oxford University Press).

ANA VADILLO Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her publications include Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity (London: Palgrave, 2005) and Mapping Women's Poetries at the Fin de Si�cle (co-ed with Marion Thain) Special Issue for the Journal of Victorian Literature and Culture 34:2.

REGENIA GAGNIER Professor of English and Director of Exeter Interdisciplinary Institute, University of Exeter, UK.

ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON Senior Lecturer in English, University of Exeter, UK.

RICK RYLANCE Professor of English and Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Literature, University of Exeter, UK.

PAUL YOUNG Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture, Department of English, University of Exeter, UK.