The Victorian bookshelf : an introduction to 61 essential novels / Jess Nevins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nevins, Jess, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This guide to the canon of Victorian literature covers 61 novels by authors from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. Brief critical essays describe what each book is about and argue for its cultural, historical and literary importance. Literary canons remain a subject of debate but critics, readers and students continue to find them useful as overviews of the great works within a given period or culture. The Victorian canon is particularly rich with splendid novels that educate, enlighten and entertain."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; L'Assommoir; Barchester Towers; Barry Lyndon; Bleak House; The Charterhouse of Parma; Coningsby; The Count of Monte Cristo; Diana of the Crossways; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Dracula; East Lynne; The Egoist; Emma; Frankenstein; Great Expectations; Heavenly Twins; Huckleberry Finn; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; The Invisible Man; Jane Eyre; Jude the Obscure; Kidnapped; Kim; Lady Audley's Secret; The Last Days of Pompeii; The Last of the Mohicans; Little Women; Lorna Doone; Madame Bovary; Marius the Epicurean; Mary Barton; Middlemarch; Les Misérables

Miss MarjoribanksMoby Dick; The Moonstone; Nana; New Grub Street; North and South; Pelham; Père Goriot; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Portrait of a Lady; Pride and Prejudice; The Red and the Black; Salammbô; The Scarlet Letter; She; Silas Marner; Sister Carrie; The Sorrows of Satan; Tess of the d'Urbervilles; The Three Musketeers; The Time Machine; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; Under Two Flags; Vanity Fair; Waverley; The Way We Live Now; The Woman in White; Wuthering Heights; Appendix: Concepts; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-2433-X