Plotting the news in the Victorian novel / Jessica R. Valdez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valdez, Jessica R., author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Journalism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Journalism and literature.

British newspapers--History--19th century.

British newspapers.

Press--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Press.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Politics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 193 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Series Editor’s Preface

Introduction

1 ‘These Acres of Print’: Charles Dickens, the News and the Novel as Pattern

2 Arrested Development: Characterisation, the Newspaper and Anthony Trollope

3 ‘The End is No Longer Hidden’: News, Fate and the Sensation Novel

4 Israel Zangwill, or ‘The Jewish Dickens’: Representing Minority Communities in Novel and Newspaper

Postscript

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Oct 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-8473-5

1-4744-7436-5

OCLC:

1312726819