English Fiction of the Victorian Period

English Fiction of the Victorian Period
Title English Fiction of the Victorian Period PDF eBook
Author Michael Wheeler
Publisher Routledge
Pages 305
Release 2014-01-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317896084

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Professor Wheeler's widely-acclaimed survey of the nineteenth-century fiction covers both the major writers and their works and encompasses the genres and "minor" fiction of the period. This excellent introduction and reference source has been revised for this second edition to include new material on lesser-known writers and a comprehensively updated bibliography.

The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction

The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction
Title The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction PDF eBook
Author John Sutherland
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 708
Release 1989
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780804718424

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An engaging guide to a rich literary heritage, The Stanford Companion presents a fascinating parade of novels, authors, publishers, editors, reviewers, illustrators, and periodicals that created the culture of Victorian fiction. Its more than 6,000 alphabetical entries provide an incomparable range of useful and little-known source material, its scholarship enlivened by the author's wit and candor.

The Crimson Petal and the White

The Crimson Petal and the White
Title The Crimson Petal and the White PDF eBook
Author Michel Faber
Publisher Canongate Books
Pages 865
Release 2010
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1847678939

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Yearning to escape her life of prostitution in 1870s London, Sugar finds her fate entangled in the complicated family life of patron William, an egotistical perfume magnate.

Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction

Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction
Title Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction PDF eBook
Author Matthew Sussman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 275
Release 2021-07
Genre History
ISBN 1108832946

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Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.

Novel Violence

Novel Violence
Title Novel Violence PDF eBook
Author Garrett Stewart
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 278
Release 2009-08-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0226774600

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Victorian novels, Garrett Stewart argues, hurtle forward in prose as violent as the brutal human existence they chronicle. In Novel Violence, he explains how such language assaults the norms of written expression and how, in doing so, it counteracts the narratives it simultaneously propels. Immersing himself in the troubling plots of Charles Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Stewart uses his brilliant new method of narratography to trace the microplots of language as they unfold syllable by syllable. By pinpointing where these linguistic narratives collide with the stories that give them context, he makes a powerful case for the centrality of verbal conflict to the experience of reading Victorian novels. He also maps his finely wrought argument on the spectrum of influential theories of the novel—including those of Georg Lukács and Ian Watt—and tests it against Edgar Allan Poe’s antinovelistic techniques. In the process, Stewart shifts critical focus toward the grain of narrative and away from more abstract analyses of structure or cultural context, revealing how novels achieve their semantic and psychic effects and unearthing, in prose, something akin to poetry.

Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press

Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press
Title Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press PDF eBook
Author G. Law
Publisher Springer
Pages 320
Release 2000-10-23
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0230286747

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Drawing on extensive archival research in both Britain and the United States, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press represents the first comprehensive study of the publication of instalment fiction in Victorian newspapers. Often overlooked, this phenomenon is shown to have exerted a crucial influence on the development of the fiction market in the last decades of the nineteenth century. A detailed description of the practice of syndication is followed by a wide-ranging discussion of its implications for readership, authorship, and fictional form.

The Victorian Novel

The Victorian Novel
Title The Victorian Novel PDF eBook
Author Barbara Dennis
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 130
Release 2000-10-26
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780521775953

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Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. This book invites readers to reflect on the whole phenomenon of the Victorian novel and its role in dissecting and informing the society which produced it. The reasons for the growth of the novel and its spectacular success is also examined and discussed. Texts and extracts from a selection of Victorian novels and essays, including some material that readers will be unfamiliar with, help to provide a broader understanding of the range of Victorian fiction. Authors include: Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope and Max Beerbohm.