Virtual play and the Victorian novel : the ethics and aesthetics of fictional experience /

"This book recovers and theorises the 'virtual' capacity of novel fiction as an alternative prospect of the form's history, function, and value. It reframes long-established narratives about the 'rise' or development of the novel through an emerging scholarship in philo...

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Main Author: Gao, Timothy, 1993- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 127.
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Table of Contents:
  • Virtual, paracosmic, fictional
  • Authorship, omnipotence, and Charlotte Bronte : The professor
  • Plotting, improvisation, and Anthony Trollope : The small house at Allington
  • Continuation, attachment, and William Makepeace Thackeray : The Newcomes
  • Description, projection, and Charles Dickens : Little Dorrit.