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Author | : Kate Flint |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317234715 |
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First published in 1987. Many Victorian novels that considered social problems made extensive use of contemporary source material for their descriptions. This book aims to provide a greater acquaintance with this non-literary material — illustrating and exemplifying issues that the authors treated imaginatively. The material is divided into parts dealing with: the industrial north of England, London and the agricultural poor. Extracts from writings that bear directly on the fiction of writers like Dickens and Gaskell are featured, as are Government Blue Books and newspaper reports and articles. This volume also contains articles by Dickens and others, from his magazine, Household Words.
Author | : Barbara Dennis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2000-10-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780521775953 |
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Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. This book invites readers to reflect on the whole phenomenon of the Victorian novel and its role in dissecting and informing the society which produced it. The reasons for the growth of the novel and its spectacular success is also examined and discussed. Texts and extracts from a selection of Victorian novels and essays, including some material that readers will be unfamiliar with, help to provide a broader understanding of the range of Victorian fiction. Authors include: Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope and Max Beerbohm.
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0791076784 |
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Victorian England produces some the the greatest novelists in Western history, including Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot. Critical analysis focuses on the development of the Victorian novel through the second half of the 19th century.
Author | : George Levine |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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How to Read the Victorian Novel unpicks our comfortable expectations of the genre to fully explore just how unfamiliar its familiarity is: emphasizing the complexity and contradictions in Victorian writers' attempts to deal with a world heading into modernity at full speed.
Author | : Francis O'Gorman |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470779853 |
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This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Author | : Daniel Hack |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780813923451 |
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Taking as his point of departure the competing uses of the critical term the materiality of writing, Daniel Hack turns to the past in this provocative new book to recover the ways in which the multiple aspects of writing now conjured by that term were represented and related to one another in the mid-nineteenth century. Diverging from much contemporary criticism, he argues that attention to the writing's material components and contexts does not by itself constitute reading against the grain. On the contrary, the Victorian discourse on authorship and the novels Hack discusses--including works by Thackeray, Dickens, Collins, and Eliot--actively investigate the significance and mutual relevance of the written word or printed word's physicality, the exchange of texts for money, the workings of signification, and the corporeality of writers, readers, and characters. Hack shows how these investigations, which involve positioning the novel in relation to such widely denigrated forms of writing as the advertisement and the begging letter, bring into play such basic novelistic properties as sympathetic identification, narrative authority, and fictionality itself. Combining formalist and historicist critical methods in innovative fashion, Hack changes the way we think about the Victorian novel's simultaneous status as text, book, and commodity.
Author | : Deirdre David |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2012-10-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107005132 |
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A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.
Author | : Laura C. Berry |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813934570 |
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The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "childhood" became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society. Berry examines the nineteenth-century fascination with victimized children to show how novels and reform writings reorganize ideas of self and society as narratives of childhood distress. Focusing on classic childhood stories such as Oliver Twist and novels that are not conventionally associated with particular social problems, such as Dickens's Dombey and Son, the Brontë sisters' Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Adam Bede, Berry shows the ways in which fiction that purports to deal with private life, particularly the domain of the family, nevertheless intervenes in public and social debates. At the same time she examines medical, legal, charitable, and social-relief writings to show how these documents provide crucial sources in the development of social welfare and modern representations of the family.
Author | : Tara MacDonald |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317317807 |
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By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot and George Gissing.
Author | : Nell Stevens |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0385543514 |
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In this tale of two writers, Nell Stevens interweaves her own life as a twenty-something graduate student with that of the English author, Elizabeth Gaskell. Although they are separated by more than 150 years, Nell finds herself drawn to the Victorian novelist by their shared experiences of unrequited love—Gaskell for an American critic she met in Rome, Nell for a soulful American screenwriter living in Paris. As Nell’s romance founders and her passion for academia fails to materialize, she finds herself wondering if the indomitable Mrs. Gaskell might rescue her pursuit of love, family, and a writing career. Lively, witty, and impossible to put down, The Victorian and the Romantic is a moving chronicle of two women, each charting a way of life beyond the rules of her time.