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The Victorian Novel

Louis James 

ISBN: 978-0-631-22628-4

February 2007

Wiley-Blackwell

272 pages

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The Victorian Novel

Louis James

E-Book
978-1-405-15228-0
April 2008
$34.00
Paperback
978-0-631-22628-4
February 2007
$42.95
Hardcover
978-0-631-22627-7
January 2006
$124.95
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.
About the Author
Louis James’s writing reflects his interests in Victorian and postcolonial literature, and his main publications include Fiction for the Working Man 1830-50 (1963), Print and the People (1976) and Caribbean Writing in English (1999). After a much-travelled academic life he now lives with his wife and two cats near the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is an Emeritus Professor of English.
Features

  • An inspiring student guide, free of critical jargon, which challenges conventional ways of seeing 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.
Series
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature
To Purchase this product, please visit
https://dev.store.wiley.com/en-us/The+Victorian+Novel-p-9780631226284