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Author(s): Louis James
ISBN(s): 9781405152280, 1405152281
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.09 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1405152281 
ISBN 13: 9781405152280
Author: Louis James

This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel.

  • Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.
  • Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing.
  • Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684).
  • Also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.
 

The Victorian Novel Blackwell Guides to Literature 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: The Victorian Novel and Its Contexts

  • The Emergence of the Novel in the Victorian Era

  • Historical, Social, and Political Background

  • Key Themes of Victorian Novels: Industrialization, Empire, Class, Gender, and Morality

  • The Novel as a Reflection of Victorian Ideals and the Changing World

2. Defining the Victorian Novel

  • The Form of the Novel: Realism, Romance, and the Rise of Serial Publication

  • Narration and Structure: From First-Person to Omniscient Narrators

  • The Novel and Its Genres: Social Novel, Gothic, Bildungsroman, Sensation Novel, and more

  • The Role of the Author and the Victorian Literary Market

3. Major Authors of the Victorian Novel

  • Charles Dickens: Social Criticism and the Reforming Spirit

  • George Eliot: Psychological Depth and Moral Complexity

  • Thomas Hardy: Fatalism and the Struggle Against Nature

  • Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë: Gothic, Feminism, and the Role of Women

  • Elizabeth Gaskell: Class Struggle, Social Reform, and Women’s Issues

  • Wilkie Collins: The Sensation Novel and the Gothic Revival

4. Themes and Techniques in the Victorian Novel

  • The Rise of Realism and Its Treatment of Everyday Life

  • Gender and Sexuality: Women’s Rights, Marriage, and Morality

  • Class, Industrialization, and the Changing Urban Landscape

  • Religion and Science: Faith, Doubt, and the Challenge of Darwinism

  • The Novel and the Empire: Colonialism and Imperial Expansion

5. The Rise of the Serial Novel

  • Serialization and Its Impact on Narrative Structure

  • How Serialization Shaped the Development of Plot and Characters

  • Case Study: Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist

6. The Novel and the Victorian Family

  • Family Dynamics in the Victorian Novel: Authority, Filial Duty, and Domesticity

  • The Depiction of Marriage, Parenthood, and Childhood

  • Key Texts: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch

7. The Novel and Victorian Social Issues

  • Social Reform, Class Distinction, and the Condition of the Working Class

  • The Impact of Industrialization on the Family and the Environment

  • Women’s Rights and the Changing Role of Women in Society

  • Case Study: Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Social Commentary

8. The Gothic and Sensation Novels

  • The Return of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction

  • The Sensation Novel: Scandal, Crime, and Psychological Suspense

  • Key Texts: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Dracula by Bram Stoker

9. The End of the Victorian Novel: Transition to Modernism

  • The Changing Role of the Novel in the Late Victorian Era

  • Victorian Novels as a Bridge Between Realism and Early Modernism

  • Influences of Victorian Writers on 20th-Century Literature

  • The Decline of the Victorian Novel as the Primary Literary Form

  • Recommended Editions and Contemporary Adaptations

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