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How to Read the Victorian Novel (Hardcover)
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How to Read the Victorian Novel (Hardcover)
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How to Read the Victorian Novel provides a unique introduction to
the genre. Using examples from the classics, like The Pickwick
Papers, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, The Woman in White, and
Middlemarch, it demonstrates just how unfamiliar their familiarity
is. The book attempts to break free of the sense that the Victorian
novel is somehow old fashioned, moralizing, and formally careless
by emphasizing the complexity, difficulty, and rare pleasures of
the Victorian writers' strenuous efforts both to entertain and to
teach; to create serious "art" and to appeal to wide audiences; to
respond both to the demands of publishing and also to their own
rich imaginative engagement with a world heading into modernity at
full speed.
Broad in its scope, the text surveys a wide variety of literary
types and explores the cultural and historical developments of the
novel form itself. The book also poses a series of "big questions"
pertaining to money, capitalism, industry, race, gender, and, at
the same time, to formal issues, such as plotting, perspective, and
realist representation. In addition, it locates the qualities that
give to the great variety of Victorian novels a "family
resemblance," the material conditions of their production, their
tendency to multiply plots, their obsession with class and money,
their problematic handling of gender questions, and their
commitment to realist representation.
How to Read the Victorian Novel challenges our comfortable
expectations of the genre in order to explore intensively a
burgeoning and changing literary form which mirrors a burgeoning
and changing society.
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