Companion Victorian Novel P - Couverture souple

Brantlinger, Brantlinger

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405132914 ISBN 13 : 9781405132916

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons, 2005

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A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Patrick Brantlinger is Rudy Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth–Century British Fiction (1998), Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain 1694 1994 (1996), Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism 1830 1914 (1990), and Crusoe s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (1990).

William B. Thesing is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He is the author of The London Muse: Victorian Poetic Responses to the City (1982) and the editor of five volumes in Gale s Dictionary of Literary Biography: Victorian Prose Writers before 1867 (1986), Victorian Prose Writers after 1867 (1987), Victorian Women Poets (1998), British Short–Fiction Writers, 1880 1914: The Realist Tradition (1994), and Late Nineteenth– and Early Twentieth–Century British Women Poets (2001). He recently edited Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film (2000).

Quatrième de couverture :

It is estimated that between 1837 and 1901 some 60,000 novels were published in Britain. This Companion introduces readers to the historical contexts in which this vast range of fiction was produced and to the critical debates that have raged about it ever since.

The Companion comprises twenty–six original, accessible chapters, written by renowned and emerging scholars in the field of Victorian studies. The first section provides overviews of key historical contexts, such as religion, class, gender, and the publishing world. The second part surveys the various genres and subgenres of the Victorian novel. The third deals with Victorian, modern, and postmodern theories of the novel and looks at how Victorian novels and novelists were received, both now and then.

A detailed and convenient index enables cross–referencing and study of a broad spectrum of authors, novels, themes, and controversies, while informed bibliographies following each chapter contain many helpful recommendations for further reading.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1405132914
• ISBN 13: 9781405132916
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528