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The Victorian Novel (Blackwell Guides to Literature)

By Louis James

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0631226273, 9780631226277, 9781405152280
LCC
PR871 .J36 2006
Open Library ID
OL3398766M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1141109 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
272\274
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel.Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing.Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson.Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Bront?’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684).Also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.

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