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Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction : Dickens, Realism, and Revaluation /

Victorian fiction has been read and analyzed from a wide range of perspectives in the past century. But how did the novelists themselves read and respond to each other's creations when they first appeared? Jerome Meckier answers that intriguing question in this ground-breaking study of what he...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meckier, Jerome
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Victorian fiction has been read and analyzed from a wide range of perspectives in the past century. But how did the novelists themselves read and respond to each other's creations when they first appeared? Jerome Meckier answers that intriguing question in this ground-breaking study of what he terms the Victorian realism wars. Meckier argues that nineteenth-century British fiction should be seen as a network of intersecting reactions and counteractions in which the novelists rethought and rewrote each other's novels as a way of enhancing their own credibility. In an increasingly relative world,
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9780813159591