Rereading Victorian Fiction

by Alice Jenkins and Juliet John

• ISBN13: 9780312226435
• ISBN10: 0312226438
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-02-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection focuses on novels and essays from the beginning of Victoria's reign through to the end of the 19th 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 and 20th-century novelists' responses to Victorian fiction.

Author Biography

Alice Jenkins is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow.

Juliet John is Lecturer in English at the University of Salford.

Table of Contents

List of llustrations	ix
Foreword	xi
John Sutherland
Acknowledgements	xiii
Notes on the Contributors	xiv
Introduction	1	(12)
Alice Jenkins
Juliet John
Victorian Realist Prose and Sentimentality	13	(16)
Philip Davis
Having the Whip-Hand in Middlemarch	29	(15)
Daniel Karlin
Two kinds of Clothing: Sartor Resartus and Great Expectations	44	(15)
Bernard Beatty
Rereading G. W. Reynolds's The Mysteries of London	59	(22)
Trefor Thomas
The State of Dracula: Bureaucracy and the Vampire	81	(15)
Gary Day
The Godhead Regendered in Victorian Children's Literature	96	(19)
Jacqueline M. Labbe
Alice: Reflections and Relativities	115	(14)
Michael Irwin
Place, Identity and Born in Exile	129	(16)
Ralph Pite
Stages of Sand and Blood: the Performance of Gendered Subjectivity in Olive Schreiner's Colonial Allegories	145	(14)
Scott McCracken
Sexual Ethics in Fiction by Thomas Hardy and the New Woman Writers	159	(14)
Jil Larson
Don Pickwick: Dickens and the Transformations of Cervantes	173	(16)
Angus Easson
Using the Victorians: the Victorian Age in Contemporary Fiction	189	(12)
Robin Gilmour
Women, Spiritualism and Depth Psychology in Michele Roberts's Victorian Novel	201	(14)
Susan Rowland
Index	215