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French Novels and the Victorians (Hardcover)
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French Novels and the Victorians (Hardcover)
Series: British Academy Monographs Series
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In 1836, John Wilson Croker, having immersed himself in dozens of
contemporary French novels, warned his readers that 'she who dares
to read a single page of the hundred thousand licentious pages with
which the last five years have indundated society, is lost for
ever.' It has become common to build an opposition between the
attitudes towards fiction held in prudish Victorian England and
permissive 19th-century France. The lack of a full-length study of
19th-century Anglo-French literary relations means, however, that
the rejection of French novels has been greatly exaggerated. French
Novels and the Victorians sheds new light on these relations by
exploring the enormous impact of French fiction on the Victorian
reading public. The book considers the many different ties built
between the two countries in the publishing industry, identifying
how French novels could be accessed and by whom, as well as who
promoted and who resisted the importation of Continental works in
England and why. The book reflects on what 'immorality' meant to
both critics and the readers they sought to warn, and how the
notion was subjected to scrutiny through censorship debates as well
as the fictional representations of readers. It also tackles the
contemporary preoccupation with literary influence, and explores
how the extensive circulation of French fiction in England affected
the concept of a 'national' literature. In addition to highlighting
the cultural importance of novelists such as Sand, Balzac, and
Dumas, this book uncovers the networks and mediums that enabled
French novels to cross the Channel, and looks at how the concept of
'the French novel' was elaborated, interpreted, and challenged.
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