The Oxford handbook of the Victorian novel / edited by Lisa Rodensky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodensky, Lisa, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks

[Oxford handbooks]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Physical Description:

xx, 808 pages ; 26 cm.

regular print

Place of Publication:

Corby : Oxford University Press 2013.

Summary:

Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. 'The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel' contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and science, the Victorian Bildungroman) as well as essays on topics often overlooked (the novel and classics, the novel and the OED, the novel, and allusion). Manifesting the increasing interdisciplinarity of Victorian studies, its essays situate the novel within a complex network of relations (among, for instance, readers, editors, reviewers, and the novelists themselves; or among different cultural pressures - the religious, the commercial, the legal). The handbook's essays also build on recent bibliographic work of remarkable scope and detail, responding to the growing attention to print culture.

Contents:

Part I Beginnings

1 The Early 19th-century English Novel, 1820-1836 / Peter Garside Garside, Peter 21

2 New Histories of English Literature and the Rise of the Novel, 1835-1859 / William Mckelvy Mckelvy, William 41

3 Genre, Criticism, and the Early Victorian Novel / Rebecca Edwards Newman Newman, Rebecca Edwards 65

Part II Publishing, Reading, Reviewing, Quoting, Censoring

4 Publishing the Victorian Novel / Rachel Sagner Buurma Buurma, Rachel Sagner 87

5 The Victorian Novel and Its Readers / Debra Gettelman Gettelman, Debra 111

6 The Victorian Novel and the Reviews / Solveig C. Robinson Robinson, Solveig C. 129

7 The Victorian Novel and the OED / Lynda Mugglestone Mugglestone, Lynda 147

8 The Novel and Censorship in Late-Victorian England / Barbara Leckie Leckie, Barbara 166

Part III The Victorian Novel Elsewhere

9 Victorian Novels in France / Marie-Françoise Cachin Cachin, Marie-Françoise 185

10 Victorian Literature and Russian Culture: Translation, Reception, Influence, Affinity / Julie Buckler Buckler, Julie 206

11 The Victorian Novel and America / Amanda Claybaugh Claybaugh, Amanda 227

12 Colonial India and Victorian Storytelling / Margery Sabin Sabin, Margery 248

Part IV Technologies: Communication, Travel, Visuality

13 The Victorian Novel arid Communication Networks / Richard Menke Menke, Richard 275

14 Technologies of Travel and the Victorian Novel / Alison Byerly Byerly, Alison 289

15 Victorian Photography and the Novel / Jennifer Green-Lewis Green-Lewis, Jennifer 313

Part V The Middle

16 Novels of the 1860s / Janice Carlisle Carlisle, Janice 337

Part VI Commerce, Work, Professions, Status

17 Industrialism and the Victorian Novel / Evan Horowitz Horowitz, Evan 357

18 The Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Money: Max Weber, Silas Marner, and the Victorian Novel / George Levine Levine, George 376

19 The Victorian Novel and the Professions / Jennifer Ruth Ruth, Jennifer 397

20 Gentleman's Latin, Lady s Greek / Kenneth Haynes Haynes, Kenneth 413

Part VII The Novel and Other Disciplines

21 The Victorian Novel and Science / Jonathan Smith Smith, Jonathan 441

22 The Victorian Novel and Medicine / Meegan Kennedy Kennedy, Meegan 459

23 Naturalizing the Mind in the Victorian Novel: Consciousness in Wilkie Collins s Poor Miss Finch and Thomas Hardy's Woodlanders-Two Case Studies / Suzy Anger Anger, Suzy 483

24 The Victorian Novel and the Law / Jan-Melissa Schramm Schramm, Jan-Melissa 507

25 The Novel and Religion: Catholicism and Victorian Women's Novels / Patrick R. O'malley O'malley, Patrick R. 529

26 The Victorian Novel and Horticulture / Lynn Voskull Voskull, Lynn 549

Part VIII Drama, Poetry, and Criticism

27 The Victorian Novel and Theatre / Emily Allen Allen, Emily 571

28 Verse Versus the Novel / James Najarian Najarian, James 589

29 Poetic Allusion in the Victorian Novel / Philip Horne Horne, Philip 606

30 The Novelist as Critic / Christopher Ricks Ricks, Christopher 634

Part IX Distinguishing the Victorian Novel

31 The Moral Scope of the English Bildungsroman / Julia Prewitt Brown Brown, Julia Prewitt 663

32 Three Matters of Style / Mark Lambert Lambert, Mark 679

Part X Endings

33 The Novel, Its Critics, and the University: A New Beginning? / Anna Vaninskaya Vaninskaya, Anna 703

34 The Victorian Novel and the New Woman / Talia Schaffer Schaffer, Talia 729

35 The Last Victorian Novel:

I Slapstick Noir: The Secret Agent Works the Victorian Novel / Rosemarie Bodenheimer Bodenheimer, Rosemarie 746

II The Quest of the Silver Fleece, by W.E.B. Du Bois / Daniel Hack Hack, Daniel 755.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199533148

9780199533145

OCLC:

860814236