My Victorian novel : critical essays in the personal voice / edited and with an introduction by Annette R. Federico ; with a foreword by Jane Tompkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Federico, Annette, 1960- editor.

Tompkins, Jane P., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The previously unpublished essays collected here are by literary scholars who have dedicated their lives to reading and studying nineteenth-century British fiction and the Victorian world. Each writes about a novel that has acquired personal relevance to them--a work that has become entwined with their own story, or that remains elusive or compelling for reasons hard to explain"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword by Jane Tompkins

Introduction: In the Personal Voice / Annette R. Federico

1. Identifying as a Reader / Andrea Kaston Tange : On Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

2. Mourning Glencora / Deborah Denenholz Morse : On The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

3. A Skeptical Education / Terrance Riley : On The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

4. Victorian Fable-Lands / So Young Park : On The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray

5. "What do I think of glory?" / Beverley Park Rilett : On Middlemarch by George Eliot

6. Unhinged / Ellen Rosenman : On Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

7. Words Like Violence / Sara Malton : On The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

8. Stock Exchanges / Jonathan Farina : On Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

9. An Ethics of Place / Mary-Catherine Harrison : On North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

9. What Esther Thinks About Sex / Catherine Robson On Bleak House by Charles Dickens

11. Liking David Copperfield / Michael J. Flynn : On David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

12. Endless Circling, Perpetual Beginning / Tom Ue On New Grub Street by George Gissing

13. Let to a Single Gentleman / Lillian Nayder On The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

14. Bedtime Reading / Narin Hassan On Dracula by Bram Stoker

15. The Hand of Fate / Annette R. Federico : Annette R. Federico On Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780826274434

0826274439

OCLC:

1137203060