A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth-century English Novel
| Author | : Julia Prewitt Brown |
| Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
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The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
| Author | : J. Kilroy |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2007-04-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230604358 |
Through analysis of eight English novels of the Nineteenth century, this work explores the ways in which the novel contributes to the formation of ideology regarding the family, and, conversely, the ways in which changing attitudes toward the family shape and reshape the novel.
The Fallen Woman in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel
| Author | : George Watt |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2016-07-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317200802 |
A sympathetic view of the fallen women in Victorian England begins in the novel. First published in 1984, this book shows that the fallen woman in the nineteenth-century novel is, amongst other things, a direct response to the new society. Through the examination of Dickens, Gaskell, Collins, Moore, Trollope, Gissing and Hardy, it demonstrates that the fallen woman is the first in a long line of sympathetic creations which clash with many prevailing social attitudes, and especially with the supposedly accepted dichotomy of the ‘two women’. This book will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century literature and women in literature.
Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction
| Author | : Anna Burton |
| Publisher | : Routledge Environmental Humanities |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-05 |
| Genre | : English fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780367747916 |
This is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of this tree-writing upon the novel form in the long nineteenth century.
The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature
| Author | : Stefanie Markovits |
| Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0814210406 |
"We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.
The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
| Author | : Terence Dawson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2016-03-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317034546 |
The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel is an experiment in post-Jungian literary criticism and methodology. Its primary aim is to challenge current views about the correlation between narrative structure, gender, and the governing psychological dilemma in four nineteenth-century British novels. The overarching argument is that the opening situation in a novel represents an implicit challenge facing not the obvious hero/heroine but the individual that Terence Dawson defines as the "effective protagonist." To illustrate his claim, Dawson pairs two sets of novels with unexpectedly comparable dilemmas: Ivanhoe with The Picture of Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights with Silas Marner. In all four novels, the effective protagonist is an apparently minor figure whose crucial function in the ordering of the events has been overlooked. Rereading these well-known texts in relation to hitherto neglected characters uncovers startling new issues at their heart and demonstrates innovative ways of exploring both narrative and literary tradition.
Reading the Nineteenth-century Novel
| Author | : Alison Case |
| Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
From Jane Austen's Persuasion to George Eliot's Middlemarch, the nineteenth century marks the rise of the novel as the dominant form of Western literature. This engaging text offers readers a close analysis of novels that are uniquely representative of the time period, including the work of Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Brontë sisters. An indispensable resource for students and teachers alike, this accessible guidebook: Places strong emphasis on the distinctive perspectives and discursive practices of narrators Provides in-depth analyses of individual passages Highlights the differences between the assumptions and experiences of the era in which the novels were written and those of the modern reader Draws key distinctions between novelists Explores significant theoretical approaches such as Foucauldian, New Historicist, Postcolonial, and feminist criticism Offers an overview of the social, economic, and political change that was influenced by the fiction of the time.
Reading for Health
| Author | : Erika Wright |
| Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2016-03-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0821445634 |
In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that prevention of illness and the preservation of well-being operate in fiction, both thematically and structurally, Wright offers a new approach to reading character and voice, order and temporality, setting and metaphor. As Wright reveals, while canonical works by Austen, Brontë, Dickens, Martineau, and Gaskell register the pervasiveness of a conventional “therapeutic” form of action and mode of reading, they demonstrate as well an equally powerful investment in the achievement and maintenance of “health”—what Wright refers to as a “hygienic” narrative—both in personal and domestic conduct and in social interaction of the individual within the community.
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities
| Author | : Dennis Walder |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2013-05-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1136750053 |
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary, Portrait of a Lady and The Woman in White. The book continues with a consideration of the novel at the fin de siecle, examining Dracula, The Awakening and Heart of Darkness. These fascinating essays illuminate the ways in which the conventions of realism were disrupted as much by anxieties surrounding colonialism, decadence, degeneration and the 'New Woman' as by those new ideas about human psychology which heralded the advent of psychoanalysis. The concepts which are crucial to the understanding of the literature and society of the nineteenth century are brilliantly explained and discussed in this essential volume.
Novel Science
| Author | : Adelene Buckland |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2013-04-12 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0226079686 |
Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the “heroic age” of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth history. Borrowing from the historical fictions of Walter Scott and the poetry of Lord Byron, they invented geology as a science, discovered many of the creatures we now call the dinosaurs, and were the first to unravel and map the sequence and structure of stratified rock. As Adelene Buckland shows, they did this by rejecting the grand narratives of older theories of the earth or of biblical cosmogony: theirs would be a humble science, faithfully recording minute details and leaving the big picture for future generations to paint. Buckland also reveals how these scientists—just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors—gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of story.
