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In this comprehensive and accessible critical overview of the Victorian novel, a number of writers explore the religious, social, political and other contexts of the period and study the various genres or subgenres of the Victorian novel.
pt. 1 Historical contexts and cultural issues. The publishing world / Kelly J. Mays -- Education, literacy, and the Victorian reader / Jonathan Rose -- Money, the economy, and social class / Regenia Gagnier -- Victorian psychology / Athena Vrettos -- Empire, race, and the Victorian novel / Deirdre David -- The Victorian novel and religion / Hilary Fraser -- Scientific ascendancy / John Kucich -- Technology and information: accelerating developments / Christopher Keep -- Laws, the legal world, and politics / John R. Reed -- Gender politics and women's rights / Hilary M. Schor -- The other arts: Victorian visual culture / Jeffrey Spear -- Imagined audiences: the novelist and the stage / Renata Kobetts Miller. pt. 2 Forms of the Victorian novel. Newgate novel to detective fiction / F.S. Schwarzbach -- The historical novel / John Bowen -- The sensation novel / Winifred Hughes -- The bildungsroman / John R. Maynard -- The Gothic romance in the Victorian period / Cannon Schmitt -- The provincial or regional novel / Ian Duncan -- Industrial and condition of England novels / James Richard Simmons, Jr. -- Children's fiction / Lewis C. Roberts -- Victorian science fiction / Patrick Brantlinger. pt. 3 Victorian and modern theories of the novel and the reception of novels and novelists then and now. The receptions of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy / Elizabeth Langland -- Victorian theories of the novel / Joseph W. Childers -- Modern and postmodern theories of prose fiction / Audrey Jaffe -- The afterlife of the Victorian novel: novels about novels / Anne Humpherys -- The Victorian novel in film and on television / Joss Marsh, Kamilla Elliott.
edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Malden, MA ; Oxford, UK : Blackwell, 2005
Blackwell companions to literature and culture