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9780333801345

Reading Fiction Opening the Text

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    9780333801345

  • ISBN10:

    0333801342

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-07-06
  • Publisher: Red Globe Pr
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Summary

This book contains close readings of the opening pages of 24 widely taught texts, from Robinson Crusoe to The Buddha of Suburbia . Offering a wide coverage of English literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries, Reading Fiction illustrates a diverse range of approaches to the close reading of prose fiction. Childs' analyses are to both an overview of modes of fiction over the last 300 years as well as a guide to the methods and techniques of close reading.

Author Biography

Peter Childs is Senior Lecturer in English, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education.

Table of Contents

Preface: Open and Close viii
Acknowledgements ix
Introducing the Text 1(14)
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
15(7)
Daniel Defoe
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759--67)
22(5)
Laurence Sterne
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
27(6)
Jane Austen
Frankenstein (1818)
33(7)
Mary Shelley
Jane Eyre (1847)
40(6)
Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights (1847)
46(8)
Emily Bronte
Great Expectations (1861)
54(7)
Charles Dickens
Silas Marner (1861)
61(6)
George Eliot
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
67(6)
Thomas Hardy
The Turn of the Screw (1898)
73(6)
Henry James
Heart of Darkness (1899--1902)
79(5)
Joseph Conrad
The Good Soldier (1915)
84(7)
Ford Madox Ford
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
91(7)
James Joyce
The Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922)
98(6)
May Sinclair
A Passage to India (1924)
104(8)
E. M. Forster
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
112(7)
Virginia Woolf
Brave New World (1932)
119(7)
Aldous Huxley
The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
126(6)
George Orwell
Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
132(7)
Christopher Isherwood
Under the Volcano (1947)
139(6)
Malcolm Lowry
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
145(7)
Jean Rhys
The Bloody Chamber (1979)
152(6)
Angela Carter
Shame (1983)
158(7)
Salman Rushdie
The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)
165(5)
Hanif Kureishi
Glossary 170(8)
Index 178

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