Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Reader-Help: How to Read Samuel Smiles’s Self-Help

Chapter 3 More than a ‘Book for Boys’? Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur and the Victorian Girl Reader

Chapter 4 The Manuscript Magazines of the Wellpark Free Church Young Men’s Literary Society

Chapter 5 Black Victorians and Anti-Caste: Mapping the Geographies of ‘Missing’ Readers

Chapter 7 Serialization and Story-Telling Illustrations: R.L. Stevenson Window-Shopping for Penny Dreadfuls

Chapter 8 Sensation and Song: Street Ballad Consumption in Nineteenth-Century England

Chapter 9 Reading Reynolds: The Mysteries of London as ‘Microscopic Survey’

Chapter 10 Cross-Media Cultural Consumption and Oscillating Reader Experiences of Late-Victorian Dramatizations of the Novel: The Case of Fergus Hume’s Madame Midas (1888)

Chapter 11 Reading Theatre Writing: T.H. Lacy and the Sensation Drama