How to Read the Victorian Novel
Title | How to Read the Victorian Novel PDF eBook |
Author | George Levine |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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How to Read the Victorian Novel unpicks our comfortable expectations of the genre to fully explore just how unfamiliar its familiarity is: emphasizing the complexity and contradictions in Victorian writers' attempts to deal with a world heading into modernity at full speed.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Title | How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Leah Price |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2012-04-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1400842182 |
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
The Victorian Novel
Title | The Victorian Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Francis O'Gorman |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0470779853 |
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Rodensky |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (UK) |
Pages | 829 |
Release | 2013-07-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199533148 |
The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked.
Thinking Without Thinking in the Victorian Novel
Title | Thinking Without Thinking in the Victorian Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Vanessa L. Ryan |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2012-06-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1421405911 |
In Thinking without Thinking in the Victorian Novel, Vanessa L. Ryan demonstrates how both the form and the experience of reading novels played an important role in ongoing debates about the nature of consciousness during the Victorian era. Revolutionary developments in science during the mid- and late nineteenth century—including the discoveries and writings of Herbert Spencer, William Carpenter, and George Henry Lewes—had a vital impact on fiction writers of the time. Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, George Meredith, and Henry James read contributions in what we now call cognitive science that asked, "what is the mind?" These Victorian fiction writers took a crucial step, asking how we experience our minds, how that experience relates to our behavior and questions of responsibility, how we can gain control over our mental reflexes, and finally how fiction plays a special role in understanding and training our minds. Victorian fiction writers focus not only on the question of how the mind works but also on how it seems to work and how we ought to make it work. Ryan shows how the novelistic emphasis on dynamic processes and functions—on the activity of the mind, rather than its structure or essence—can also be seen in some of the most exciting and comprehensive scientific revisions of the understanding of "thinking" in the Victorian period. This book studies the way in which the mind in the nineteenth-century view is embedded not just in the body but also in behavior, in social structures, and finally in fiction.
The Victorian Novel in Context
Title | The Victorian Novel in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Grace Moore |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2012-05-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1847064892 |
Structured in 3-parts, this book focuses on immediate contexts, key texts, and wider contexts enables development from background issues through the actual literary texts to criticism and afterlives.
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 |
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.