Synopsis Victorian Fiction: Some New Approaches deals with Thomas Love Peacock, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, W.M. Thackeray, George Eliot and George Meredith in addition to a number of other novelists. The chapters based on these novelists thoroughly and conclusively analyse and summarise only those aspects which form the central part of the modern criticism. Novels chosen for discussion, too, are those which usually have a scholarly tradition of criticism. The early as well as the late victorian fiction has been reinterpreted in the light of uniformitarianism, naturalism, Newtonism and Darwinism.