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The Victorian novel in context /
This book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on po...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, New York :
Continuum,
2012.
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| Colección: | Texts and contexts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half title; Series page; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE Contexts; 1 Victorianism; A reforming age; The city; Poverty; Chartism; Money; Education; Religious crises; Evolution and faith; The angel in the house; The fin de siècle; The New Woman; The Dandy and homosexuality at the fin de siècle; Atavism and degeneration; The Whitechapel murders and the Nemesis of Neglect; The Empire; 2 Literary context; The form of the novel; The Bildungsroman; Realism; The problem of ending; The fl ight from the real; Review; Reading
- ResearchPART TWO Texts; 3 Readings of key texts; Oliver Twist, the unprotected child; Gaskell, the working poor and the lady visitor; Jane Eyre and genteel poverty; Eliot, Hardy and rural poverty; The Northern manufacturing city; London; Education; The Mill on the Floss; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Dracula; The representation of women; Women, prostitution and reputation; Reputation; Space and women in the public sphere; Masculinity; The gentleman; Dracula and wealth; The colonies; Endings and generic subversions; Reading; Research; Jane Eyre; North and South; The Mill on the Floss
- The Mayor of CasterbridgeDracula; Extended Research Topic; PART THREE Wider contexts; 4 Critical context ; Marxist criticism and the novel; Jane Eyre as an imperialist text: Gayatri Spivak talks back to Gilbert and Gubar; Victorian sexuality and surveillance; Darwin and the novel: Gillian Beer; Mary Poovey, feminism and interdisciplinarity; Ecocriticism and the novel; New directions for Victorian studies; Review; Research; 5 Afterlives and adaptations; The decline of the Victorians; The Victorians around us; Neo-Victorianism and the classic novel; The vampire's afterlives
- Influential reworkingsHauntings; Reading; Research; Select webography; Bibliography; Index