Title Novels of Everyday Life : the Series in English Fiction, 1850-1930

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (253 pages) Contents Cover; Novels of Everyday Life; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Minor Fiction, Endless Progress Toward a Feminist Ethics; 2. The Everyday as Everything Pushing the Limits of Culture in Trollope's Series Fiction; 3. The City, the Everyday, and Boredom The Case of Sherlock Holmes; 4. Unbegun and Unfinished Race, Modernism, and the Series as a Tradition; Afterword: "Enough!"; Index Summary Laurie Langbauer argues that our worldview is shaped not just by great public events but also by the most overlooked and familiar aspects of common life-"the everyday." This sphere of the everyday has always been a crucial component of the novel, but has been ignored by many writers and critics and long associated with the writing of women. Focusing on the linked series of novels characteristic of later Victorian and early modern fiction-such as Margaret Oliphant's Carlingford Chronicles or the Sherlock Holmes stories-she investigates how authors make use of the everyday as a foundation to support their versions of realism. What happens when-in the series novel, or in contemporary theory-the everyday becomes a site of contestation and debate? Langbauer pursues this question through the novels of Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Trollope, and Arthur Conan Doyle-and in the writings of Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and John Galsworthy as they reflect on their Victorian predecessors. She also explores accounts of the everyday in the works of such theorists as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Sigmund Freud, as well as materialist critics, including George Lukacs, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. Her work shows how these writers link the series and the everyday in ways that reveal different approaches to comprehending the obscurity that makes up daily life Notes Print version record SUBJECT Andrae, A. gnd (DE-588)156400294 Englisch, ... gnd (DE-588)138518394 Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Folk literature, English -- Great Britain -- History and criticism Manners and customs in literature. English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Manners and customs in literature Folk literature, English English fiction Alltag Motiv Fortsetzungsroman Serie Unterhaltungsroman Zyklenroman Engels. Realisme (letterkunde). Romans. Littérature populaire -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire et critique. Moeurs et coutumes -- Dans la littérature. Roman anglais -- 1900-1945 -- Histoire et critique. Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique. Roman anglais -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique. Roman populaire anglais -- Histoire et critique. Great Britain Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501744570 1501744577

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