The Victorian Novel : a Guide to Criticism.

This guide looks at how the Victorian novel has been read over the past hundred years. Unlike other critical guides, it not only provides students with examples of significant strands of criticism, but also helps them to make sense of these articles and extracts by means of a narrative and critical...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2002.
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Textual Note
  • Introduction
  • The range of Victorian fiction
  • Difficulties of the term 'Victorian novel'
  • Definition used in this book
  • The changing face of criticism
  • Outline of the book
  • Outline of chapter 1
  • Outline of chapter 2
  • Outline of chapter 3
  • Outline of chapter 4
  • Outline of chapter 5
  • Outline of chapter 6
  • Outline of chapter 7
  • Outline of chapter 8
  • Fiction and the law
  • Outline of chapter 9
  • Feminism and the contemporary academy
  • Masculinity studies
  • Canon revision in recent Victorian fiction studies
  • Sensation fiction
  • Gothic fiction
  • New Woman fiction
  • Popular fiction
  • 'The Victorian novel' not 'Victorian novelists'
  • The embeddedness of criticism
  • Chapter Notes
  • Further Reading
  • 1 Early Criticism of the Victorian Novel from James Oliphant to David Cecil
  • Outline of the chapter
  • The state of the novel in 1900
  • University study of Victorian literature
  • Principles of literary history
  • The Survey: George Saintsbury (1845-1933)
  • The approach of George Saintsbury
  • Extract from George Saintsbury, The English Novel (1913)
  • Edwin Morgan Forster's Aspects of the Novel (1927)
  • E.M. Forster and critiquing literary history
  • Lord David Cecil and Early Victorian Novelists (1934)
  • The Modernist construction of Victorian fiction
  • David Cecil's view of Victorian novels and culture
  • Extract from Lord David Cecil, Early Victorian Novelists (1934)
  • Chapter Notes
  • Further Reading
  • 2 F.R. Leavis and The Great Tradition
  • Introduction
  • Leavis's influence
  • The principles of Leavis's criticism
  • The idea of tradition
  • 1980s' reactions to the politics of Leavis's criticism
  • The principles of Leavis's The Great Tradition (1948)
  • Its treatment of Dickens and Leavis's later views on him
  • Extract from F.R. Leavis, The Great Tradition (1948)
  • Chapter Notes
  • Further Reading
  • 3 Feminism and the Victorian Novel in the 1970s
  • The influence of 1970s' feminism
  • Ellen Moers's Literary Women (1976)
  • Elaine Showalter and the female tradition
  • Discussion of Showalter's A Literature of their Own (1977)
  • 1980s' response to Showalter
  • Extract from Elaine Showalter, A Literature of their Own (1977)
  • Significance of Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
  • The Madwoman discussed
  • Gilbert and Gubar's appraisal of The Madwoman
  • Extract from Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
  • Chapter Notes
  • Further Reading
  • 4 Realism
  • Preliminary questions
  • Histories of Realism
  • Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel (1957)
  • The Cartesian certainties of realism
  • Watt critiqued
  • Alternative histories of realism
  • Epistemology of Realism
  • loan Williams and realism's certainties
  • George Levine's view of realism and self-consciousness
  • Extract from George Levine, The Realistic Imagination (1981)
  • Psychological coherence in realism: Bersani's A Future for Astyanax (1976)
  • Politics of classic realism and coherence criticized in the 1980s
  • Extract from Catherine Belsey, Critical Practice (1980)
  • Belsey critiqued
  • D.A. Miller's The Novel and the Police (1988)
  • The turn against realism in the 1980s
  • Interest in Gothic
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