The Victorian novel in context Grace Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Grace, 1974- author.

Series:

Texts and contexts.

Texts and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Literature and society--England--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2012.

Summary:

This book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts including Dickens's Oliver Twist, Gaskell's North and South and Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. The Victorian Novel in Context examines the changing readership resulting from the growth of mass literacy and the effect that this had on the form of the novel. Taking texts from the early, mid and late Victorian period it encourages students to consider how serialization shaped the nineteenth-century novel. It highlights the importance of politics, religion and the evolutionary debate in 'classic' Victorian texts. Addressing key concerns including realist writing, literature and imperialism, urbanization and women's writing, it introduces students to a variety of the most important critical approaches to the novels. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying the Victorian novel.

Contents:

Victorianism

Literary context

Readings of key texts

Critical context

Afterlives and adaptations

Series Preface \ Acknowledgements \ Introduction \ Part I: Contexts \ 1. Victorianism \ 2. Literary Context \ Part II: Texts \ 3. Readings of Key Texts \ Part III: Wider Contexts \ 4. Critical Context \ 5. Afterlives and adaptations \ Bibliography \ Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781474211550

1474211550

9781441124135

1441124136

OCLC:

1138649088