Novel Possibilities : Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture /

Childers contends that novels such as Benjamin Disraeli's Coningsby, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, and Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke were in direct competition with other forms of public discourse for interpretive dominance of their age. Childers examines the interactions between...

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Main Author: Childers, Joseph W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Roman
Politische Literatur
Gesellschaft
Social change in literature.
Religion and literature.
Politics and literature.
Literature and society.
Literature and anthropology.
Historiography.
English fiction.
Culture in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Changement social dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Religion et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Politique et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature et anthropologie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Culture dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Religion and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and anthropology > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Englisch.
Grossbritannien
Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1837-1901 (Victoria) > Historiographie.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1837-1901 (Vic.) > Historiographie.
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901 > Historiography.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The possibility of the novel
  • Politics and interpretive discourse
  • Fiction into fiction
  • The new generation, the political subject, and the culture of change
  • The novel and the utilitarian
  • Mr. Chadwick writes the poor
  • Feminine hygiene : women in the Sanitary condition report
  • Religion, the novel, and speaking for/of the other
  • Alton Locke and the religion of chartism
  • Mary Barton and the community of suffering.

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