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How to read the Victorian novel

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eng

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How to read the Victorian novel

"How to Read the Victorian Novel" provides a unique introduction to the genre. Using examples from the classics, like "The Pickwick Papers", "David Copperfield", "Jane Eyre", "The Woman in White", and "Middlemarch", it demonstrates just how unfamiliar their familiarity is. This book attempts to break free of the sense that the Victorian novel is somehow old fashioned, moralizing, and formally careless by emphasizing the complexity, difficulty, and rare pleasures of the Victorian writers' strenuous efforts both to entertain and to teach; to create serious 'art' and to appeal to wide audiences; and, to respond both to the demands of publishing and also to their own rich imaginative engagement with a world heading into modernity at full speed.Broad in its scope, the text surveys a wide variety of literary types and explores the cultural and historical developments of the novel form itself. The book also poses a series of 'big questions' pertaining to money, capitalism, industry, race, gender, and, at the same time, to formal issues, such as plotting, perspective, and realist representation.

In addition, it locates the qualities that give to the great variety of Victorian novels a 'family resemblance', the material conditions of their production, their tendency to multiply plots, their obsession with class and money, their problematic handling of gender questions, and their commitment to realist representation. "How to Read the Victorian Novel" challenges our comfortable expectations of the genre in order to explore intensively a burgeoning and changing literary form which mirrors a burgeoning and changing society.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Malden, MA, Australia

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Blackwell Pub.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 173 p. ; 23 cm.

Other Title Information

How to study literature

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN: 9781405130561

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by George Levine

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1

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The beginnings and Pickwick -- Vanity fair and Victorian realism -- Jane, David and the Bildungsroman -- The sensation novel and the woman in white -- Middlemarch

Entry Element

History and criticism ، English fiction - 91th century

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Study guides ، English fiction - 91th century - Examinations

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History ، Literature and society - England - 91th century

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Social aspects ، Books and reading - England History - 91th century

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، Senses and sensation in literature

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History and criticism ، Bildungsromans, English

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Levine, George Lewis

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