Hidden rivalries in Victorian fiction : Dickens, realism, and revaluation / Jerome Meckier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meckier, Jerome, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Realism in literature.

Social problems in literature.

Literary quarrels--Great Britain.

Literary quarrels.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.

Dickens, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Victorian fiction has been read and analyzed from a wide range of perspectives in the past century. But how did the novelists themselves read and respond to each other's creations when they first appeared? Jerome Meckier answers that intriguing question in this ground-breaking study of what he terms the Victorian realism wars. Meckier argues that nineteenth-century British fiction should be seen as a network of intersecting reactions and counteractions in which the novelists rethought and rewrote each other's novels as a way of enhancing their own credibility. In an increasingly relative world,

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ONE: The Victorian ""Multiverse"": Bleak House; TWO: The Cant of Reform: The Warden; THREE: Mutual Recrimination: Hard Times; FOUR: An Ultra-Dickensian Novel: The Woman in White; FIVE: Undoing by Outdoing Continued: Great Expectations; SIX: Inimitably Regained: The Mystery of Edwin Drood; SEVEN: ""That Arduous Invention"": Middle march; EIGHT: Conclusions: Realism, Revaluation, and Realignment; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Bibliography: p. [282]-300.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813133263

0813133262

9780813159591

0813159598

OCLC:

575886056