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The Early and Mid-Victorian Novel

The Early and Mid-Victorian Novel - Critical Approaches S.

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Publisher's Synopsis

Readers and teachers of Victorian fiction make many assumptions about realism, about characterization and gender stereotypes, about sensationalism and about social criticism. This collection guides the reader to a more thorough understanding of the significance of these and other issues, in the early and mid-Victorian novel. The introductions and notes aim to make this study one of the most accessible guides to mid-Victorian attitudes and theories. Extracts from contemporary criticism are reprinted, covering a considerable diversity of subjects, to demonstrate what the educated Victorian regarded as important literary issues of the day.;The low esteem in which post-Jamesian critics of the 1890s, and later, held early and mid-Victorian criticism, accompanies a turning-away from social and political aspects of the novel, such as the social origins of fiction, the expansion of the reading public, and speculation concerning the determination of fictional form and content by social and economic factors.

Book information

ISBN: 9780415032575
Publisher: Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
Imprint: Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.809
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 270g
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 12mm