| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 513 pages) |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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| Contents |
pt. 1 Historical contexts and cultural issues. The publishing world / Kelly J. Mays -- Education, literacy, and the Victorian reader / Jonathan Rose -- Money, the economy, and social class / Regenia Gagnier -- Victorian psychology / Athena Vrettos -- Empire, race, and the Victorian novel / Deirdre David -- The Victorian novel and religion / Hilary Fraser -- Scientific ascendancy / John Kucich -- Technology and information: accelerating developments / Christopher Keep -- Laws, the legal world, and politics / John R. Reed -- Gender politics and women's rights / Hilary M. Schor -- The other arts: Victorian visual culture / Jeffrey Spear -- Imagined audiences: the novelist and the stage / Renata Kobetts Miller. pt. 2 Forms of the Victorian novel. Newgate novel to detective fiction / F.S. Schwarzbach -- The historical novel / John Bowen -- The sensation novel / Winifred Hughes -- The bildungsroman / John R. Maynard -- The Gothic romance in the Victorian period / Cannon Schmitt -- The provincial or regional novel / Ian Duncan -- Industrial and "condition of England" novels / James Richard Simmons, Jr. -- Children's fiction / Lewis C. Roberts -- Victorian science fiction / Patrick Brantlinger. pt. 3 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 / Elizabeth Langland -- Victorian theories of the novel / Joseph W. Childers -- Modern and postmodern theories of prose fiction / Audrey Jaffe -- The afterlife of the Victorian novel: novels about novels / Anne Humpherys -- The Victorian novel in film and on television / Joss Marsh, Kamilla Elliott |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056823 -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001300
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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History.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-
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Thesing, William B.
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Wiley InterScience (Online service)
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| ISBN |
0470996323 |
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0470997206 (electronic bk.) |
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063122064X |
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1405132914 |
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1405165235 |
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9780470996324 |
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9780470997208 (electronic bk.) |
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9780631220640 |
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9781405132916 |
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9781405165235 |
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