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The Victorian Novel

By Louis James

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The Victorian Novel

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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 Brontë'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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2005-11-24
Publication Date:
2007-01-24
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0631226281
ISBN13:
9780631226284
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
399 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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