Title The nineteenth-century novel, 1820-1880 / edited by John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 548 pages) Series The Oxford history of the novel in English ; v. 3 Oxford history of the novel in English ; v. 3. Contents Novelists, readers, and the fiction industry: The publishing industry / Joanne Shattock. Readers and reading practices / Deborah Wynne. The professionalization of authorship / Graham Law -- Varieties and genres: The historical novel / Richard Maxwell. Gothic fictions in the nineteenth century / Deborah Lutz. The English Bildungsroman / Richard Salmon. The silver fork novel / Dianne F. Sadoff. The Newgate novel / Heather Worthington. The sensation novel / Nancy Armstrong. Children's fiction / Claudia Nelson. The domestic novel / Susan Fraiman -- Major authors in context: Charles Dickens : the novelist as public figure / Lyn Pykett. The Brontës and the transformations of romanticism / John Bowen. George Eliot and intellectual culture / Dinah Birch -- Narrative structures and strategies: Short fiction and the novel / Jenny Bourne Taylor. Multiple narrators and multiple plots / Jenny Bourne Taylor and John Kucich. Addressing the reader : the autobiographical voice / Rachel Ablow. Realism and theories of the novel / Nicholas Dames. Theatricality and the novel / David Kurnick. Aesthetic theories / Lucy Hartley -- The nation and its boundaries: Modernization and the organic society / John Kucich. Place, region, and migration / Josephine McDonagh. The novel and empire / Elaine Freedgood. Nationalism and national identities / James Buzard. International influences / Margaret Cohen -- Contemporary contexts: Radicalism and reform / Ella Dzelzainis. Parliament and the states / Lauren M.E. Goodlad. Science and the novel / Cannon Schmitt. Religion and the novel / Norman Vance. Psychology and the idea of character / Michael Davis. Gender identities and relationships / Cora Kaplan Summary 'The Oxford History of the Novel in English' traces how many narrative genres, conventions, and preoccupations associated with Victorian fiction emerged and developed as the novel became established at the centre of British national culture Notes "The Oxford history of the novel in English; General Editor: Patrick Parrinder"--2nd preliminary page Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-532) and indexes Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century National characteristics, English, in literature. Social change in literature. English fiction Literature and society National characteristics, English, in literature Popular literature Social change in literature Englisch Roman Engelska romaner -- historia -- 1800-talet. Great Britain Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Kucich, John, editor Taylor, Jenny Bourne, 1949- editor. Parrinder, Patrick, 1944- editor. ISBN 9780199560615 0199560617 9780191803499 0191803499

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