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This book offers a collection of essays on novels and short stories from the beginning of Victoria's reign through to the end of the nineteenth century and into our own times. The essays represent a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints on fiction, and they deal with a number of lesser-known Victorian Works as well as with some of the most canonical texts of the period. The chronological range of the volume is extended by essays which explore Victorian texts' connections with earlier literature, as well as by studies of twentieth-century novelists' responses to Victorian fiction. Overall this collection emphasizes the breadth and diversity of Victorian prose fiction and will be of interest to students and specialists alike.
Author Notes
BERNARD BEATTY Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Liverpool UniversityPHILIP DAVIS Reader in the English Department at the University of LiverpoolGARY DAY Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at DeMontfort University, BedfordANGUS EASSON Professor of English and Head of Department at the University of SalfordROBIN GILMOUR Reader in English at the University of AberdeenMICHAEL IRWIN Professor of English Literature, University of KentDANIEL KARLIN Professor of English, University College LondonJACQUELINE M. LABBE Reader in Nineteenth-Century Poetry, University of WarwickJIL LARSON Associate Professor of English, Western Michigan UniversitySCOTT McCRACKEN Senior Lecturer in English, University of SalfordRALPH PITE Senior Lecturer in English, University of LiverpoolSUSAN ROWLAND Senior Lecturer in English at the University of GreenwichTREFOR THOMAS Research Associate in the Centre for North-West Regional Studies based in the Department of History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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After a century of reading Victorian fiction, scholars are exploring a new eclecticism. Written by outstanding British critics of the period, these 14 essays express a diversity of opinion characteristic of current postmodernism. Though revisionist in the main, the essays do not debunk stereotypical Victorian concepts. On the contrary, the stated aim of the contributors, as articulated in the introduction, is "to emphasize the ideological, aesthetic, intellectual and moral diversity of both Victorian fiction and its critical reception." Toward that end, an informative lead essay uses close readings of texts by Dickens, Gaskell, and Eliot to reassess the role of sentimentality and survey the temporality of both the Victorian novel as a form and the experience of reading fiction. Subsequent essays undermine "sentimentalism" and focus on notions of realism in Hardy, the fantastic in Bram Stoker, and gender and religion in Olive Schreiner and George MacDonald; other contributions cover various aspects of Lewis Carroll, George Gissing, Thackeray, Trollope, and a host of other authors. Emphasizing the breadth and diversity of Victorian fiction, this collection will interest undergraduate and graduate students alike. G. A. Cevasco; St. John's University (NY)
Table of Contents
| ForewordJohn Sutherland |
| IntroductionAlice Jenkins and Juliet John |
| Victorian Realist Prose and SentimentalityPhilip Davis |
| Having the Whip-Hand in MiddlemarchDaniel Karlin |
| Two Kinds of Clothing: Sartor Resartus and Great ExpectationsBernard Beatty |
| Rereading G.W. Reynolds' The Mysteries of LondonTrefor Thomas |
| The Godhead Regendered in Victorian Children's LiteratureJacqueline M. Labbe |
| Alice : Reflections and RelativitiesMichael Irwin |
| Place, Identity, and Born in ExileRalph Pite |
| Stages of Sand and Blood: The Performance of Gendered Subjectivity in Olive Schreiner's Colonial AllegoriesScott McCracken |
| Sexual Ethics in Fiction by Thomas Hardy and the New Woman WritersJil Larson |
| Don Pickwick: Dickens and the Transformation of CervantesAngus Easson |
| Using the Victorians: The Victorian Age in Contemporary FictionRobin Gilmour |
| Women, Spiritualism, and Depth Psychology in Michegrave;le Roberts's Victorian NovelSusan Rowland |