The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture

This handbook is an invaluable resource about Victorian literature, art, and culture which challenges its readers to ponder perplexing questions about how and why some scandals were perpetrated and propagated in the nineteenth century while others were not, and what the controversies reveal about the human condition.

Brenda Ayres is retired from full-time residential teaching but currently teaches nineteenth-century English literature and professional writing online for several universities.

Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick.