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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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| 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.