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A companion to the Victorian novel

In this comprehensive and accessible critical overview of the Victorian novel, a number of writers explore the religious, social, political and other contexts of the period and study the various genres or subgenres of the Victorian novel.

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Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Group Author: Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-; Thesing, William B.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture
Subjects:
1800 - 1901
Geschichte 1832-1902.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English fiction.
Literature and society.
Literatura inglesa (história e crítica) > Século 19; século 20.
Electronic books.
LITERARY CRITICISM > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Roman.
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901 > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
History.
Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996324
Summary: In this comprehensive and accessible critical overview of the Victorian novel, a number of writers explore the religious, social, political and other contexts of the period and study the various genres or subgenres of the Victorian novel.
Carrier Form: xii, 513 pages ; 26 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780470996324
0470996323
1405132914
9781405132916
9781405165235
1405165235
9780470997208 (electronic bk.)
0470997206 (electronic bk.)
Access: Access restricted to subscribers.
Index Number: PR871
CLC: I561.074
Contents: Historical contexts and cultural issues.
The publishing world /
Education, literacy, and the Victorian reader /
Money, the economy, and social class /
Victorian psychology /
Empire, race, and the Victorian novel /
The Victorian novel and religion /
Scientific ascendancy /
Technology and information: accelerating developments /
Laws, the legal world, and politics /
Gender politics and women's rights /
The other arts: Victorian visual culture /
Imagined audiences: the novelist and the stage /
Forms of the Victorian novel.
Newgate novel to detective fiction /
The historical novel /
The sensation novel /
The bildungsroman /
The Gothic romance in the Victorian period /
The provincial or regional novel /
Industrial and "condition of England" novels /
Children's fiction /
Victorian science fiction /
Victorian and modern theories of the novel and the reception of novels and novelists then and now.
The receptions of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy /
Victorian theories of the novel /
Modern and postmodern theories of prose fiction /
The afterlife of the Victorian novel: novels about novels /
The Victorian novel in film and on television /

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