Novel Pedagogy : The Novel and Educational Publications in Victorian Britain / Liwen Zhang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Liwen, author.

Series:

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.

SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Novelists, English--19th century.

Novelists, English.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

Explores Victorian writers' conception of the novel's potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction What Kind of Knowledge Does the Novel Teach?

The Novel's Intellectual Intermediacy

The Book-Historical Road Not Taken

On (Not) Seeking Novelistic Knowledge

Chapter One: William Thackeray, the Character Sketch, and the Portrait of a Novelist in Literary History

The Character-Career Correlation

"The Selfishness of Achilles"

The Portrait of a Novelist as a Hero

Chapter Two: Charles Kingsley and the Novelist as Poetry Instructor

The Fashionable, the High-Toned, and the Instructive

Knowledge of Poetry in the Prosimetric Novel

"Fill Up My Time Here with Making Verses"

Chapter Three: Great Expectations and Dickens's Spelling Book Predicament

"Antiquated" Spelling Books and Their Readers

A "Song or a Story-Book": The Moral Tale versus the Life Story

Chapter Four: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Ambiguity of Useful Knowledge

The Lofty Rhetoric of Useful Knowledge

Whimsical Uses for Useful Knowledge

"And Red as a Rose Is She": Floral Metaphors for Knowledge

The Uselessness of Fiction

Chapter Five: George Eliot's "Graceful Mark of Instruction" and the Novel as "Shallow" Knowledge

The Shallow, the Grave, and the Graver

Containing/Being Knowledge: The Novel as/within Educational Media

The Novel as Conversational Lecture

Chapter Six: George Gissing and the Elusive Art of Fiction

How (Not) to Become a Novelist

"If You Can Be a George Eliot": Talent and Its Connotations

Cautionary Tales of Training and Experience

Coda: Can There Ever Be an Endgame for the Novel's Intellectual Rise?

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438499758

1438499752

OCLC:

1456722600