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A companion to the Victorian novel / edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
- Blackwell companions to literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- English fiction.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Literature and society.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 513 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Victorian novel
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA ; Oxford, UK : Blackwell, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period. Explains issues such as Victorian religions, class structure, and Darwinism to those who are unfamiliar with them. Comprises original, accessible chapters written by renowned and emerging scholars in the field of Victorian studies. Ideal for students and researchers seeking up-to-the-minute coverage of contexts and trends, or as a starting point for a survey course.
- Contents:
- Intro
- A Companion to The Victorian Novel
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The Contributors
- Introduction
- PART I Historical Contexts and Cultural Issues
- 1 The Publishing World
- 2 Education, Literacy, and the Victorian Reader
- 3 Money, the Economy, and Social Class
- 4 Victorian Psychology
- 5 Empire, Race, and the Victorian Novel
- 6 The Victorian Novel and Religion
- 7 Scientific Ascendancy
- 8 Technology and Information: Accelerating Developments
- 9 Laws, the Legal World, and Politics
- 10 Gender Politics and Women's Rights
- 11 The Other Arts: Victorian Visual Culture
- 12 Imagined Audiences: The Novelist and the Stage
- PART II Forms of the Victorian Novel
- 13 Newgate Novel to Detective Fiction
- 14 The Historical Novel
- 15 The Sensation Novel
- 16 The Bildungsroman
- 17 The Gothic Romance in the Victorian Period
- 18 The Provincial or Regional Novel
- 19 Industrial and "Condition of England" Novels
- 20 Children's Fiction
- 21 Victorian Science Fiction
- PART III Victorian and Modern Theories of the Novel and the Reception of Novels and Novelists Then and Now
- 22 The Receptions of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy
- 23 Victorian Theories of the Novel
- 24 Modern and Postmodern Theories of Prose Fiction
- 25 The Afterlife of the Victorian Novel: Novels about Novels
- 26 The Victorian Novel in Film and on Television
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780470702680
- 0470702680
- 9780470997208
- 0470997206
- 9781405165235
- 1405165235
- 9781405132916
- 1405132914
- 9781782687290
- 1782687297
- 9780585467351
- 0585467358
- OCLC:
- 184983610
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