{"product_id":"a-concise-companion-to-the-victorian-novel-9781405103206","title":"A Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900. This title opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian novel was written and read. It provides perspectives on how Victorian fiction relates to different contexts, such as class, sexuality, empire, psychology, law, and biology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]his book succeeds in presenting a representative selection of historicist critical thinking on panorama of themes of the novel during the period of what was, arguably, this literary form's greatest achievement. It will be a stimulating introduction for the advanced undergraduate with an interest in the nineteenth century, and a useful lead for the postgraduate student working in the field of Victorian studies on any one of the numerous taught programmes currently on offer.\" \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of illustrations xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrancis O’Gorman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 ‘The sun and moon were made to give them light’: Empire in the Victorian Novel 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCannon Schmitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 ‘Seeing is believing?’: Visuality and Victorian Fiction 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKate Flint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 ‘The boundaries of social intercourse’: Class in the Victorian Novel 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Eli Adams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Legal subjects, legal objects: The Law and Victorian Fiction 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClare Pettitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 ‘The withering of the individual’: Psychology in the Victorian Novel 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicholas Dames\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 ‘Telling of my weekly doings’: The Material Culture of the Victorian Novel 113\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark W. Turner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 ‘Farewell poetry and aerial flights’: The Function of the Author and Victorian Fiction 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Salmon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Everywhere and nowhere: Sexuality in the Victorian Novel 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarolyn Dever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 ‘One of the larger lost continents’: Religion in the Victorian Novel 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Wheeler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 ‘The difference between human beings’: Biology in the Victorian Novel 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngelique Richardson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 ‘One great confederation?’: Europe in the Victorian Novel 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Rignall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 ‘A long deep sob of that mysterious wondrous happiness that is one with pain’: Emotion in the Victorian Novel 253\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrancis O’Gorman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 271\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50014987518295,"sku":"9781405103206","price":36.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405103206.jpg?v=1739907607","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-concise-companion-to-the-victorian-novel-9781405103206","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}