Imagining Otherwise: How Readers Help to Write Nineteenth-Century Novels - Paperbackby Debra Gettelman (Author) How Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heights As novel publication exploded in nineteenth century Britain, writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot learned from experience sometimes grudgingly that readers tend to make their own imaginative contributions to fictional worlds. Imagining Otherwise shows how Victorian writers acknowledged, grappled