The Victorian Novel

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Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism

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The Victorian Novel explores the evolving critical reception of Victorian fiction over the last century. It provides students with a unique approach by combining examples of key critical perspectives with a clear narrative and analytical framework. The book covers major novelists such as the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope. It begins with an overview of early critical responses before delving into contemporary themes including genre, gender, politics, science, language, the literary canon, and production contexts. This guide aims to enhance critical understanding and engagement with the rich debates surrounding Victorian novels.
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This guide is ideal for students and scholars of literature, particularly those focusing on Victorian fiction and literary criticism. It is also suitable for readers seeking a deeper critical understanding of classic Victorian novels and their ongoing academic interpretation.

This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

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This guide looks at how The Victorian Novel has been read over the past hundred years. Unlike other critical guides, it not only provides students with examples of significant strands of criticism, but also helps them to make sense of these articles and extracts by means of a narrative and critical framework.

The novelists referred to are the acknowledged great names of Victorian fiction, including the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope.

A short opening section describing and representing early critical responses is complemented by a longer second section looking at current themes in criticism, such as genre, gender, politics, science, language, the canon, and modes of production.

The volume as a whole enhances students' critical repertoire, encourages them to recognise the situatedness of all criticism, and helps them to engage with critical debates about the Victorian novel.

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Choice praises the book for its lucid, readable narrative accessible to non-specialists and recommends it highly for all literature students. Reference Reviews highlights its usefulness across English and History courses for clear critique applicable to any Victorian novel. The Brown Book emphasises its lasting value as a stimulating resource for both academics and general readers, noting its role in reshaping how Victorian fiction is appreciated.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780631227045

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 July 2002

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

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Edited by Francis O'Gorman
Edited by Francis O'Gorman

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 539g

Pages: 368

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism

About the Author

Francis O'Gorman is Lecturer in Victorian Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds. He has written widely on the Victorian period, including the books John Ruskin (1999) and Late Ruskin: New Contexts (2001), and co-edited collections on Margaret Oliphant (1999), Ruskin and Gender (2002), and The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition (2003). He has also written articles and book chapters on Ruskin, Tyndall, Robert Browning, Tennyson, Michael Field, and Victorian masculinities. He is currently working on an annotated anthology of Victorian poetry (Blackwell, forthcoming), and writing more on Ruskin.

The Victorian Novel