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The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Serialization (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
1403947740, 9781403947741, 9780230512566
LCC
PR868.P78 P39 2005
Open Library ID
OL22627480M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1508265 bytes)
Pages
224\221
Topic
Education
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book shows how Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot sacralized Victorian modernity in two contradictory ways: by incarnating their moment as one of transcendent development, and by reenacting bloody rituals from a fading Protestant past. Both the magnitude and the brevity of their success make these works exemplary for our own era, caught between the archaic gods of traditional religion and the still-mysterious ones of market society.

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