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This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel.
  • Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.
  • Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing.
  • Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684).
  • Also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.

The Victorian Novel

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 24/11/2005
    ISBN13: 9780631226284, 978-0631226284
    ISBN10: 0631226281

    Number of Pages: 272

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel.
    • Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.
    • Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing.
    • Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
    • Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684).
    • Also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.

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