The Victorian Novel

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: James, Louis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2007.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • The Victorian Novel
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • How to Use This Book
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • Context 1: Time Maps
  • Prelude: 1830-1846
  • Revolutions: 1847-1849
  • Equipoise: 1850-1870
  • Turning the Tide: 1871-1880
  • The Last Decades: 1881-1901
  • Context 2: Changing Perspectives
  • 'Things As They Are'
  • History
  • Biography
  • Religion and Morals
  • Evolution
  • Detectives
  • Context 3: Foundations
  • The Truth of the Heart
  • Affairs of the Heart(h)
  • Ways of Seeing
  • The Modality of Melodrama
  • The White Rabbit's Watch
  • Key Authors
  • William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82)
  • Walter Besant (1836-1910)
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon [later Maxwell] (1835-1915)
  • Charlotte Brontë, 'Currer Bell' (1816-55), Emily [Jane] Brontë, 'Ellis Bell' (1818-48), Anne Brontë, 'Acton Bell' (1820-49)
  • Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920)
  • [William] Wilkie Collins (1824-89)
  • Marie [Isabel Marie] Corelli [née Mills, later Mackay] (1855-1924)
  • Charles [John Huffam] Dickens (1812-70)
  • Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81)
  • [Sir] Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
  • George Eliot [née Mary Anne/Marian Evans] (1819-80)
  • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [née Stevenson] (1810-65)
  • George [Robert] Gissing (1857-1903)
  • [Sir] H[enry] Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
  • Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
  • G[eorge] P[ayne] R[ainsford] James (1801-60)
  • Henry James (1843-1916)
  • Douglas [William] Jerrold (1803-57)
  • Geraldine E[ndsor] Jewsbury (1812-80)
  • Charles Kingsley (1819-75)
  • [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1830-76)
  • [Joseph Thomas] Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73)
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton [until 1843, Edward George Earle Lytton] (1803-73)
  • George Macdonald (1824-1905)
  • Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)
  • Harriet Martineau (1802-76)
  • George Meredith (1828-1909)
  • George [Augustus] Moore (1852-1933)
  • Margaret Oliphant [née Wilson] (1828-97)
  • Ouida [Marie Louise de la Ramée] (1839-1908)
  • Charles Reade (1814-84)
  • G[eorge] W[illiam] M[acarthur] Reynolds (1814-79)
  • James Malcolm Rymer (1803?-84)
  • Robert Louis [Lewis Balfour] Stevenson (1850-94)
  • R[obert] S[mith] Surtees (1805-64)
  • William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63)
  • Anthony Trollope (1815-82)
  • Mrs T[homas] Humphry Ward [née Mary Augusta Arnold] (1851-1920)
  • H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946)
  • [William Hale White] Mark Rutherford (1831-1913)
  • Ellen Wood [Mrs Henry Wood, née Ellen Price] (1814-87)
  • Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901)
  • Key Texts
  • Major Presences
  • John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to the Next (Part I, 1678
  • Part II, 1684)
  • Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
  • or, 'Tis Sixty years Since (1814)
  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
  • or, the Modern Prometheus (1818
  • revised 1831)
  • Pierce Egan, Sr, Life in London (1820-1)
  • Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833-4)
  • Main Texts
  • Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1837-8)
  • G. W. M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London (1844-6)
  • Geraldine Jewsbury, Zoe (1845)

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