{"product_id":"the-victorian-novel-hardback-9780631226277","title":"The Victorian Novel (Hardback) 9780631226277","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Victorian Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLouis James (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631226277, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 November 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e25 x 15 x 1.5 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Brontë's \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e (1847) and Bram Stoker's \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan's \u003ci\u003ePilgrim's Progress\u003c\/i\u003e (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684).\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAlso covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustration\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgement\u003cbr\u003eHow to Use This Book\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContext 1: Time Maps\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePrelude: 1830–1846\u003cbr\u003eRevolutions: 1847–1849\u003cbr\u003eEquipoise: 1850–1870\u003cbr\u003eTurning the Tide: 1871–1880\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Decades: 1881–1901\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContext 2: Changing Perspectives\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Things As They Are'\u003cbr\u003eHistory\u003cbr\u003eBiography\u003cbr\u003eReligion and Morals\u003cbr\u003eEvolution\u003cbr\u003eDetectives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContext 3: Foundations\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe Truth of the Heart\u003cbr\u003eAffairs of the Heart(h)\u003cbr\u003eWays of Seeing\u003cbr\u003eThe Modality of Melodrama\u003cbr\u003eThe White Rabbit's Watch\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Authors\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWilliam Harrison Ainsworth (1805–82)\u003cbr\u003eWalter Besant (1836–1910)\u003cbr\u003eMary Elizabeth Braddon (later Maxwell) (1835–1915)\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Brontë, 'Currer Bell' (1816–55), Emily [Jane] Brontë, 'Ellis Bell' (1818–48), Anne Brontë, 'Acton Bell' (1820–49)\u003cbr\u003eRhoda Broughton (1840–1920)\u003cbr\u003e[William] Wilkie Collins (1824–89)\u003cbr\u003eMarie [Isabel Marie] Corelli [née Mills, later Mackay] (1855–1924)\u003cbr\u003eCharles [John Huffam] Dickens (1812–70)\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Disraeli (1804–81)\u003cbr\u003e[Sir] Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Eliot (née Mary Anne\/Marian Evans) (1819–80)\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson) 1810–65\u003cbr\u003eGeorge [Robert] Gissing (1857–1903)\u003cbr\u003e[Sir] H[enry] Rider Haggard (1856–1925)\u003cbr\u003eThomas Hardy (1840–1928)\u003cbr\u003eG[eorge] P[ayne] R[aynesford] James (1801–60)\u003cbr\u003eHenry James (1843–1916)\u003cbr\u003eDouglas [William] Jerrold (1803–57)\u003cbr\u003eGeraldine E[ndsor] Jewsbury (1812–80)\u003cbr\u003eCharles Kingsley (1819–75)\u003cbr\u003e[Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1830–76)\u003cbr\u003e[Joseph Thomas] Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–73)\u003cbr\u003eEdward Bulwer-Lytton [until 1843, Edward George Earle Lytton] (1803–73)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Macdonald (1824–1905)\u003cbr\u003eFrederick Marryat (1792–1848)\u003cbr\u003eHarriet Martineau (1802–76)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Meredith (1828–1909)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge [Augustus] Moore (1852–1933)\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Oliphant [née Wilson] (1828–97)\u003cbr\u003eOuida (Marie Louise de la Ramée, 1839–1908)\u003cbr\u003eCharles Reade (1814–84)\u003cbr\u003eG[eorge] W[illiam] M[acarthur] Reynolds (1814–79)\u003cbr\u003eJames Malcolm Rymer (1803?–84)\u003cbr\u003eRobert Louis [Lewis Balfour] Stevenson (1850–94)\u003cbr\u003eR[obert] S[mith] Surtees (1805–64)\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63)\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Trollope (1815–82)\u003cbr\u003eMrs T[homas] Humphry Ward (née Mary Augusta Arnold) (1851–1920)\u003cbr\u003eH[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866–1946)\u003cbr\u003e[William Hale White] Mark Rutherford (1831–1913)\u003cbr\u003eEllen Wood [Mrs Henry Wood, née Ellen Price] (1814–87)\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Texts\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMajor Presences\u003cbr\u003eJohn Bunyan, \u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim's Progress from this World to the Next\u003c\/i\u003e (Part 1, 1678; Part II, 1684)\u003cbr\u003eSir Walter Scott, \u003ci\u003eWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty years Since\u003c\/i\u003e (1814)\u003cbr\u003eMary Shelley, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus\u003c\/i\u003e (1818; revised 1831)\u003cbr\u003ePierce Egan, Sr, \u003ci\u003eLife in London\u003c\/i\u003e (1820–1)\u003cbr\u003eThomas Carlyle, \u003ci\u003eSartor Resartus\u003c\/i\u003e (1833–4)\u003cbr\u003eMain Texts\u003cbr\u003eCharles Dickens, \u003ci\u003eOliver Twist\u003c\/i\u003e (1837–8)\u003cbr\u003eG. W. M. Reynolds, \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of London\u003c\/i\u003e (1844–6)\u003cbr\u003eGeraldine Jewsbury, \u003ci\u003eZoe\u003c\/i\u003e (1845)\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Brontë, \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e (1847)\u003cbr\u003eEmily Brontë, \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e (1847)\u003cbr\u003eW. M. Thackeray, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e (1847–8)\u003cbr\u003eW. M. Thackeray, \u003ci\u003ePendennis\u003c\/i\u003e (1848–50)\u003cbr\u003eCharles Dickens, \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003e (1852–3)\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Brontë, \u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e (1853)\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Gaskell, \u003ci\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/i\u003e (1854–5)\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Trollope, \u003ci\u003eBarchester Towers\u003c\/i\u003e (1857)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Eliot, \u003ci\u003eAdam Bede\u003c\/i\u003e (1859)\u003cbr\u003eWilkie Collins, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/i\u003e (1860)\u003cbr\u003eCharles Dickens, \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e (1860–1)\u003cbr\u003eMrs Henry [Ellen] Wood, \u003ci\u003eEast Lynne\u003c\/i\u003e (1861)\u003cbr\u003eMary Elizabeth Braddon, \u003ci\u003eLady Audley's Secret\u003c\/i\u003e (1861–2)\u003cbr\u003eCharles Kingsley, \u003ci\u003eThe Water-Babies\u003c\/i\u003e (1863)\u003cbr\u003eLewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], \u003ci\u003eAlice's Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e (1865), \u003ci\u003eThrough the Looking Glass\u003c\/i\u003e (1871)\u003cbr\u003eOuida [Marie Louise de la Ramée], \u003ci\u003eUnder Two Flags\u003c\/i\u003e (1867)\u003cbr\u003eR[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, \u003ci\u003eLorna Doone\u003c\/i\u003e (1869)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Eliot, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e (1871–2)\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Trollope, \u003ci\u003eThe Way We Live Now\u003c\/i\u003e (1874–5)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Meredith, \u003ci\u003eThe Egoist\u003c\/i\u003e (1879)\u003cbr\u003eHenry James, \u003ci\u003ePortrait of a Lady\u003c\/i\u003e (1881)\u003cbr\u003e[Olive Schreiner] Ralph Iron, \u003ci\u003eThe Story of an African Farm\u003c\/i\u003e (1883)\u003cbr\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson, \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\u003c\/i\u003e (1886)\u003cbr\u003eSir Henry Rider Haggard, \u003ci\u003eShe\u003c\/i\u003e (1887)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Gissing, \u003ci\u003eNew Grub Street\u003c\/i\u003e (1891)\u003cbr\u003eThomas Hardy, \u003ci\u003eTess of the D'Urbervilles\u003c\/i\u003e (1891)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Moore, \u003ci\u003eEsther Waters\u003c\/i\u003e (1894)\u003cbr\u003eMarie Corelli, \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of Satan\u003c\/i\u003e (1895)\u003cbr\u003eH. 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