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Author: Daniel Tyler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-01-06
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1108427510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates the importance of attending to literary style in Victorian novels and provides exemplary readings of major novelists.
Author: Matthew Sussman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1108832946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.
Author: Alexis Weedon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1351875868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers-including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliver & Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and T&A Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from 1836 to 1916, this book interprets broad trends in the growth and diversity of book publishing in Victorian Britain. Chapters explore the significance of the export trade to the colonies and the rising importance of towns outside London as centres of publishing; the influence of technological change in increasing the variety and quantity of books; and how the business practice of literary publishing developed to expand the market for British and American authors. The book takes examples from the purchase and sale of popular fiction by Ouida, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Ewing, and canonical authors such as George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and Mark Twain. Consideration of the unique demands of the educational market complements the focus on fiction, as readers, arithmetic books, music, geography, science textbooks, and Greek and Latin classics became a staple for an increasing number of publishing houses wishing to spread the risk of novel publication.
Author: Rohan Maitzen
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2009-06-11
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 155111769X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Victorian Art of Fiction presents important Victorian statements on the form and function of fiction. The essays in this anthology address questions of genre, such as realism and sensationalism; questions of gender and authorship; questions of form, such as characterization, plot construction, and narration; and questions about the morality of fiction. The editor discusses where Victorian writing on the novel has been placed in accounts of the history of criticism and then suggests some reasons for reconsidering this conventional evaluation. Among the featured essayists and critics are John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, George Henry Lewes, Leslie Stephen, Anthony Trollope, and Robert Louis Stevenson; the classic essays include George Eliot’s “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” and Henry James’s “The Art of Fiction.”
Author: Lisa Rodensky
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Published: 2013-07-11
Total Pages: 829
ISBN-13: 0199533148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked.
Author: Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-10-10
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1476633592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.
Author: Richard Menke
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780804756914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTelegraphic Realism demonstrates the connections between British nineteenth-century fiction, media technologies, and developing ideas about information, from the postage stamp to wireless.
Author: Jennifer Hedgecock
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1604975180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"examines the changing social and economic status of women from the 1860s through the 1880s, and rejects the stereotypical mid-Victorian femme fatale portrayed by conservative ideologues critiquing popular fiction by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Honore de Balzac, and William Makepeace Thackeray. In these book reviews, the female protagonist is simply minimized to a dangerous woman. Refuting this one-dimensional characterization, this book argues that the femme fatale comes to represent the real-life struggles of the middle-class Victorian woman who overcomes major adversities such as poverty, abusive husbands, abandonment, single parenthood, limited job opportunities, the criminal underworld, and Victorian society's harsh invective against her." --publisher description.
Author: Garrett Stewart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-06-14
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1107193850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis across dozens of significant authors.
Author: Garrett Stewart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0226774600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictorian novels, Garrett Stewart argues, hurtle forward in prose as violent as the brutal human existence they chronicle. In Novel Violence, he explains how such language assaults the norms of written expression and how, in doing so, it counteracts the narratives it simultaneously propels. Immersing himself in the troubling plots of Charles Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Stewart uses his brilliant new method of narratography to trace the microplots of language as they unfold syllable by syllable. By pinpointing where these linguistic narratives collide with the stories that give them context, he makes a powerful case for the centrality of verbal conflict to the experience of reading Victorian novels. He also maps his finely wrought argument on the spectrum of influential theories of the novel—including those of Georg Lukács and Ian Watt—and tests it against Edgar Allan Poe’s antinovelistic techniques. In the process, Stewart shifts critical focus toward the grain of narrative and away from more abstract analyses of structure or cultural context, revealing how novels achieve their semantic and psychic effects and unearthing, in prose, something akin to poetry.
