Introduction: popular fiction as media histrionics
Property, professionalism and the pathologies of literature: Walter Besant and the discourse of authorship circa 1890
Dreaming true: aesthetic experience, psychiatric power and the paranormal in George Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson
Marie Corelli and the spirit of the market
Writing aestheticism through colonial eyes: Rosa Praed and the theosophical novel
Arthur Machen and the 'differentia of literature'
Conclusion: the popular fiction of critical theory.