Good Luck, Jenny Bourke

Good Luck, Jenny Bourke

Author: Hels Cahill

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2012-06-20

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 178088107X

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Jenny Bourke is disheartened with the sorry state of potential boyfriends in her small home town in the west of Ireland. She decides to take drastic action and moves to London for a year to see what life can throw at her in the form of the male species, not realising that her stuck-in-a-rut life is just about to be detonated. Leaving behind her demented Mother (the local Mayor) who thinks London has nothing to offer but pigeons, playboys and terrorists, Jenny embarks on a journey that reveals the personality and talents that she never knew existed, and has lots of fun in the process. But, she has her work cut out for her. Not only does she have to fend off the competition for a new job in the cut-throat media world, she also has to wade through the swamp of ‘387,500’ single men to unearth a decent boyfriend. Among her eccentric Uncle’s new business venture, a paranoid cousin, a lunatic new house mate, an ex-boyfriend who won’t vacate her thoughts and a plethora of new yummy work colleagues (one in particular), she must have her wits about her for the London adventure. Well, a girl can take a chance, can’t she?


The Spectator

The Spectator

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1865

Total Pages: 1162

ISBN-13:

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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.


A Victorian Art of Fiction

A Victorian Art of Fiction

Author: John Charles Olmsted

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-11

Total Pages: 2072

ISBN-13: 1317269012

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First published in 1979, each volume contains a collection of essays on the novel drawn from periodicals which demonstrates the primary concerns of those discussing the nature and purpose of prose fiction in the period from 1830 to 1900. The essays reflect what was thought and said about the art of fiction and reveal what journalists of these periodicals thought were the most urgent critical concerns facing the working reviewer. Including an introduction which assesses the issues raised by the best periodicals at the time, each anthology is designed to provide students of Victorian fiction and critical theory with a collection of essays on the art of fiction in a convenient and durable form.


Victorian Criticism of the Novel

Victorian Criticism of the Novel

Author: Edwin M. Eigner

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1985-11-07

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780521275200

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By the end of the nineteenth century the novel unquestionably had become the most popular and influential of English literary forms. Yet it has not always been clear how the Victorians themselves regarded the nature of prose fiction. This volume is a collection of twelve 'landmark' essays that chart the development of English theories of fiction during the great age of the novel. Spanning the whole of the Victorian period, from Bulwer Lytton's 'On Art in Fiction' (1838) to Conrad's preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897), the volume also includes pieces by George Eliot, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and a number of the more important critics and reviewers of the time. The editors' introduction surveys the main issues, such as the debate between realism and romance, addressed by novel criticism throughout the period. Each of the selections that follow is set in its historical context by a prefatory essay and is fully annotated for the student. There is a helpful bibliography of further reading.


The Victorian Art of Fiction

The Victorian Art of Fiction

Author: Rohan Maitzen

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2009-06-11

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1460404270

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The 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.”


The Fortnightly Review

The Fortnightly Review

Author: George Henry Lewes

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2022-01-19

Total Pages: 794

ISBN-13: 3752559055

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.