The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

by David, Deirdre

• ISBN13: 9781107005136
• ISBN10: 1107005132
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-03-25
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second edition of the Companion to the Victorian Novel and its contexts has been updated fully, taking account of new research and critical methodologies. There are four new chapters and the others have been thoroughly updated, as has the guide to further reading. Designed to appeal to students, teachers and readers, these essays reflect the latest approaches to reading and understanding Victorian fiction.

Table of Contents

Chronology

Introduction

The Victorian novel and its readers

The business of Victorian publishing

A history of criticism of the Victorian novel

Victorian realism

Intellectual debate in the Victorian novel: religion and science

Race and the Victorian novel

Social class and the Victorian novel

When gender meets sexuality in the Victorian novel

Victorian feelings

Sensation and the fantastic in the Victorian novel

The transatlantic novel in the nineteenth century

Guide to further reading

Index

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