Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism

by Bomarito, Jessica; Whitaker, Russel

• ISBN13: 9780787686444
• ISBN10: 0787686441
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-31
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Summary

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately four to eight literary figures who died between 1800 and 1899 by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among the topics profiled in this volume are: ul li Child Labour in 19th Century Literature li Food in 19th Century Literature li South Literature of the Reconstruction /ul

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Literary Criticism Series Advisory Board	p. xiii
The Audience and Nineteenth-Century Literature
Introduction	p. 1
Representative Works	p. 2
Overviews	p. 3
Race, Class, Gender	p. 35
America	p. 89
Britain and Europe	p. 102
Genre and Audience	p. 130
Further Reading	p. 157
The Presentation of Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Introduction	p. 159
Representative Works	p. 160
Book Design	p. 160
Gift Books	p. 172
Serial Novels	p. 191
Dime Novels	p. 214
Further Reading	p. 226
Social Protest Literature of Victorian England
Introduction	p. 227
Representative Works	p. 228
Overviews: Protest in Victorian Literature	p. 229
The Woman Question	p. 262
The Condition-of-England Novel	p. 304
Further Reading	p. 358
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Author Index	p. 363
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Topic Index	p. 463
NCLC Cumulative Nationality Index	p. 475
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