{"product_id":"york-notes-companions-victorian-literature-9781408204818","title":"York Notes Companions Victorian Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr Beth Palmer\u003c\/b\u003e is lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey (from September 2010). Her teaching interests are wide-ranging and she has taught British and American literature from the 18th to 21st centuries with particular interests in Victorian fiction, women's writing, and the Bronte sisters. Her research interests have centred around Victorian fiction, print culture and the press, readership and women's writing. Forthcoming publications are \u003ci\u003eWomen's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2011) and \u003ci\u003eA Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900\u003c\/i\u003e, eds Beth Palmer and Adelene Buckland (Ashgate, 2011). She is currently developing a new research project on the relationship between the popular theatre and the Victorian novel and is also interested in neo-Victorian fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book was well written and flowed neatly, linking ideas and works by different authors, and as ever quotations help to outline different points... The book was very useful, particularly its extended commentary on Dorian Gray\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Kimberley Simpson, English Student Warwick University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePart One – Introduction \u003c\/b\u003e                                                                                                                                                            \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePart Two\u003c\/b\u003e – \u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eCultural Overview \u003c\/b\u003e                              \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePart Three – Texts, Writers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand Contexts\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVictorian Poetry – Memory and Mourning: The Brownings, Swinburne and Alfred, Lord Tennyson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtended commentary: Tennyson, \u003ci\u003eIn Memoriam\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Social Problem Novel: Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley and Elizabeth Gaskell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtended Commentary: Gaskell, \u003ci\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/i\u003e (1855) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Provincial or Regional Novel: Anthony Trollope, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtended Commentary: Hardy, \u003ci\u003eFar From the Madding Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSensation Fiction: Wilkie Collins, Ellen Wood and Mary Elizabeth Braddon \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtended Commentary: Braddon, \u003ci\u003eLady Audley’s Secret\u003c\/i\u003e (1862)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVictorian Drama: Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtended Commentary: Shaw, \u003ci\u003eMrs Warren’s Profession \u003c\/i\u003e(1893)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAesthetes and Decadents: Walter Pater, Arthur Symonds, J. K. Huysmans and Oscar Wilde\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtended Commentary: Wilde, \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/i\u003e (1891) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four: Critical theories and Debates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReader Reception and the popular author \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew women, New Readers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Literature of Empire and National Identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScience, Eugenics and Evolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five – References and resources\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTimeline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pearson Education","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019799265623,"sku":"9781408204818","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408204818.jpg?v=1750781294","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/york-notes-companions-victorian-literature-9781408204818","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}