Novel Possibilities : : Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture / / Joseph W. Childers.
Joseph Childers contends that novels such as Benjamin Disraeli's Coningsby, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, and Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke were in direct competition with other forms of public discourse for interpretive dominance of their age. Childers examines the interactions b...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Cultural Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Possibility of the Novel
- 1. Politics and Interpretive Discourse
- 2. Fiction into Fiction
- 3. The New Generation, the Political Subject, and the Culture of Change
- 4. The Novel and the Utilitarian
- 5. Mr. Chadwick Writes the Poor
- 6. Feminine Hygiene: Women in the Sanitary Condition Report
- 7. Religion, the Novel, and Speaking for/of the Other
- 8. Alton Locke and the Religion of Chartism
- 9. Mary Barton and the Community of Suffering
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter