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 |
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
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 |
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
Title | The Crimson Petal and the White PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Faber |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Pages | 865 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1847678939 |
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
Title | Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Sussman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2021-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108832946 |
Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.
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 |
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.
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Title | History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Mitchell |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2010-07-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230283128 |
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary.
Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Title | Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | R. Arias |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2009-11-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230246745 |
Exploring the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in contemporary culture, these essays use the trope of haunting and spectrality as a critical tool with which to consider neo-Victorian works, as well as our ongoing fascination with the Victorians, combining original readings of well-known novels with engaging analyses of lesser-known works.