Rent More, Save More! Use code: KBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

The Victorian Novel

by: O'Gorman, Francis

The Victorian Novel

by: O'Gorman, Francis

ISBN 13:
9780631227038
ISBN 10:
0631227032
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 09/27/2002
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

New From $156.86

Sorry, this item is currently unavailable on Knetbooks.com

Click the link below to purchase this eBook from our trusted partner, eCampus.com.

View eBook

List Price $157.81 Save $0.95

New $156.86

Print on Demand: 2-4 Weeks. This item cannot be cancelled or returned.

We Buy This Book Back!

Included with your book

Free Shipping On Every Order

Add to Cart

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Extend or Purchase Your Rental at Any Time

Need to keep your rental past your due date? At any time before your due date you can extend or purchase your rental through your account.

Summary

This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

Acknowledgements
Textual Note
Introduction
Early Criticism of the Victorian Novel from James
Oliphant to David Cecil
The State of the Novel in 1900
University Study of Victorian Literature
Principles of Literary History
The Approach of George Saintsbury
Extract from Saintsbury's The English Novel (1913)
E.M. Forster and Critiquing Literary History
The Modernist Construction of Victorian Fiction
David Cecil's View of Victorian Novels and Culture
Extract from Cecil's Early Victorian Novelists (1934)
Further Reading
F.R. Leavis and The Great Tradition
Outline of the Chapter
Leavis's Influence
The Principles of Leavis' Criticism
The Idea of Tradition
1980s' Reactions to the Politics of Leavis' Criticism
The Principles of Leavis' The Great Tradition (1948)
Its Treatment of Dickens and Leavis' Later Views on Him
Extract from The Great Tradition
Further Reading
Feminism and the Victorian Novel in the 1970s
The Influence of 1970s' Feminism
Outline of the Chapter
Ellen Moers' Literary Women (1976)
Elaine Showalter and the Female Tradition
Discussion of Showalter's A Literature of Their Own (1977)
1980s' Response to Showalter
Extract from A Literature of Their Own
Significance of Gilbert and Gubar's
The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
The Madwoman Discussed
Gilbertand Gubar's Appraisal of The Madwoman
Extract from The Madwoman
Further Reading
Realism
Preliminary Questions
Outline of the Chapter
Histories of Realism
Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel (1957) Discussed
The Cartesian Certainties of Realism
Watt Critiqued
Alternative Histories of Realism
Epistemology of Realism
Ioan Williams and Realism's Certainties
George Levine's View of Realism and Self-Consciousness
Extract from Levine's The Realist Imagination (1981)
Psychological Coherence in Realism: Bersani
A Future for Astyanax (1976)
Politics of Classic Realism and Coherence Criticized in 1980s
Extract from Belsey's Critical Practice (1980)
Belsey Critiqued
D.A. Miller's The Novel and the Police (1988) Discussed
The Turn Against Realism in the 1980s
Interest in Gothic
Interest in the not-Said of Realism
The Feminist Recuperation of Realism in 1980s
Extract from Boumehla's 'Realism and the Ends of Feminism' (1988)
New Historicism and Historicizing the Real
Rothfield's Vital Signs (1992)
Nancy Armstrong and Kate Flint
Conclusion
Further Reading
Social-Problem Fiction
Historicism and Feminism
What is Social-Problem Fiction?
Outline of the First Part of Chapter
Cazamian's Reading in 1903
The Significance of Raymond Williams
Williams's 'Structures of Feeling'
Williams's Criticisms of Social-Problem Fiction
The Knowable Community in Williams's
The English Novel (1970)
Extract from The English Novel
Williams's Generalizations
Sheila Smith's Particularization of Williams
More Problems Found in Social-Problem Fiction
Brantlinger's Historicization: a Context for Social-Problem
Fiction
New Historicism: Further Contexts
Context
Gallagher and the Discourse over Industrialism
Context
Mary Poovey and the Social Body
Extract from Mary Poovey's Making a Social Body (1995)
Criticisms of New Historicism
Guy and Individualism in the Victorian Mind
Extract from Guy's The Victorian Social-Problem
Novel (1996)
Feminism and the Social-Problem Novel
Outline of Second Part of Chapter
Recent Work on Elizabeth Gaskell
Bergmann's Views on Strong Female Characters
Kestner's Canon Revision
Nord, Female Novelists, and Transgression
Harman, Female Novelists, and Transformation
The Future of
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Rent More, Save More! Use code: KBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

The Victorian Novel

The Victorian Novel

9780631227038

0631227032

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Write a Review