The Cambridge companion to the Victorian novel /

In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enligh...

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Other Authors: David, Deirdre, 1934-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Victorian novel and its readers / Kate Flint
  • The business of Victorian publishing / Simon Eliot
  • A history of criticism of the Victorian novel / James Eli Adams
  • Victorian realism / Caroline Levine
  • Intellectual debate in the Victorian novel : religion and science / John Kucich
  • Race and the Victorian novel / Patrick Brantlinger
  • Social class and the Victorian novel / Joseph W. Childers
  • When gender meets sexuality in the Victorian novel / Nancy Armstrong
  • Victorian feelings / Rachel Ablow
  • Sensation and the fantastic in the Victorian novel / Lyn Pykett
  • The transatlantic novel in the nineteenth century / Clare Pettit.