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The Victorian Novel de Louis James

The Victorian Novel

Autor Louis James
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2007
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631226284
ISBN-10: 0631226281
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 6 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Revised.
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

students of Victorian literature and culture; general readers

Notă biografică

Louis James is Emeritus Professor of Victorian and Modern Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He began his academic career in the University of Hull adult education Department, followed by a lectureship at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. In 1966 he left to join the newly established University of Kent at Canterbury, from where he took years out to teach at Universities in the United States, Africa and the Far East. His publications on Victorian and postcolonial literatures include Fiction for the Working Man (1963); The Islands in Between (1968); Print and the People (1976); Jean Rhys (1978); Caribbean Writing in English (1999), and The Victorian Novel (2006). More recently he edited, with Anne Humphreys, G.W.M. Reynolds. Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics and the Press (2008).

Cuprins

List of Illustration
Acknowledgement
How to Use This Book
Chronology
Introduction
Context 1: Time Maps
Prelude: 1830-1846
Revolutions: 1847-1849
Equipoise: 1850-1870
Turning the Tide: 1871-1880
The Last Decades: 1881-1901
Context 2: Changing Perspectives
'Things As They Are'
History
Biography
Religion and Morals
Evolution
Detectives
Context 3: Foundations
The Truth of the Heart
Affairs of the Heart(h)
Ways of Seeing
The Modality of Melodrama
The White Rabbit's Watch
Key Authors
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82)
Walter Besant (1836-1910)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (later Maxwell) (1835-1915)
Charlotte Brontë, 'Currer Bell' (1816-55), Emily [Jane] Brontë, 'Ellis Bell' (1818-48), Anne Brontë, 'Acton Bell' (1820-49)
Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920)
[William] Wilkie Collins (1824-89)
Marie [Isabel Marie] Corelli [née Mills, later Mackay] (1855-1924)
Charles [John Huffam] Dickens (1812-70)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81)
[Sir] Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
George Eliot (née Mary Anne/Marian Evans) (1819-80)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson) 1810-65
George [Robert] Gissing (1857-1903)
[Sir] H[enry] Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
G[eorge] P[ayne] R[aynesford] James (1801-60)
Henry James (1843-1916)
Douglas [William] Jerrold (1803-57)
Geraldine E[ndsor] Jewsbury (1812-80)
Charles Kingsley (1819-75)
[Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1830-76)
[Joseph Thomas] Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton [until 1843, Edward George Earle Lytton] (1803-73)
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)
Harriet Martineau (1802-76)
George Meredith (1828-1909)
George [Augustus] Moore (1852-1933)
Margaret Oliphant [née Wilson] (1828-97)
Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée, 1839-1908)
Charles Reade (1814-84)
G[eorge] W[illiam] M[acarthur] Reynolds (1814-79)
James Malcolm Rymer (1803?-84)
Robert Louis [Lewis Balfour] Stevenson (1850-94)
R[obert] S[mith] Surtees (1805-64)
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63)
Anthony Trollope (1815-82)
Mrs T[homas] Humphry Ward (née Mary Augusta Arnold) (1851-1920)
H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946)
[William Hale White] Mark Rutherford (1831-1913)
Ellen Wood [Mrs Henry Wood, née Ellen Price] (1814-87)
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901)
Key Texts
Major Presences
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to the Next (Part 1, 1678; Part II, 1684)
Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty years Since (1814)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818; revised 1831)
Pierce Egan, Sr, Life in London (1820-1)
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833-4)
Main Texts
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1837-8)
G. W. M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London (1844-6)
Geraldine Jewsbury, Zoe (1845)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847-8)
W. M. Thackeray, Pendennis (1848-50)
Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1852-3)
Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853)
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1854-5)
Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (1857)
George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859)
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860)
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860-1)
Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood, East Lynne (1861)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (1861-2)
Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies (1863)
Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Through the Looking Glass (1871)
Ouida [Marie Louise de la Ramée], Under Two Flags (1867)
R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Lorna Doone (1869)
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-2)
Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now (1874-5)
George Meredith, The Egoist (1879)
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady (1881)
[Olive Schreiner] Ralph Iron, The Story of an African Farm (1883)
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, She (1887)
George Gissing, New Grub Street (1891)
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
George Moore, Esther Waters (1894)
Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan (1895)
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
Arthur Morrison, A Child of the Jago (1896)
Bram [Abraham] Stoker, Dracula (1897)
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1902)
Topics
Children's Novels
Colonial Novels
Historical Novels
Illustrated Novels
Irish Novels
'New Woman' Novels
Publishing Formats
Regional Novels
Religious Novels
Science, Utopias and Dystopias
Sensation Novels
Social Problem Novels
The Supernatural
Working-class Novels
Further Reading
Index