Introduction
1. Walter Besant Now
Kevin A. Morrison
Part One: Literary Collaborations
2. Besant and Collaboration
Kirsty Bunting
3. 'Another like me': The Literary Partnership of Walter Besant and James Rice
Richard Storer
4. 'I have altered nothing': Walter Besant's Completion of Blind Love
Maria K. Bachman and Don Richard Cox
Part Two: Reforming Authorship
5. Walter Besant and Copyright Reform
Mary Ann Gillies
6. The Author Function in Walter Besant's Fiction: the Notion of Artistic Value in the Wake of Copyright Law and the Nationalist Restructuring of the Trade
Alberto Gabriele
7. Besant, Chatto and Watt: a Literary Income in the 1890s
Simon Eliot
8. Workers as Artists: From Copyright to the Palace of Delight in Besant's Writings
Ayse Celikkol
Part Three: Authoring Reforms
9. Altruism and The Monks of Thelema: Ideals and Realities
Geoffrey A.C. Ginn
10. The Ethics of Perception and the Politics of Recognition: Walter Besant's All Sorts and Conditions of Men
Kevin Swafford
11. From Happy Individuals to Universal Sisterhood: Affective Reforms in All Sorts and Conditions of Men and Children of Gibeon
Vicky Cheng and Haejoo Kim
Part Four: Literary Relations
12. Moral Perfectionism, Optatives, and the Inky Line in Besant's All in a Garden Fair and Gissing's New Grub Street
Tom Ue
13. Walter Besant: A Latter-Day Dickens?
Andrzej Diniejko