Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900 / / ed. by Martin Middeke, Monika Pietrzak-Franger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Bach, Susanne,; Berns, Ute,; Burstein, Miriam Elizabeth,; Böhm-Schnitker, Nadine,; Carens, Timothy L.,; Clausson, Nils,; Feldmann, Doris,; Grünkemeier, Ellen,; Jones, Anna Maria,; Karschay, Stephan,; Knoepflmacher, U.C.,; Lennartz, Norbert,; Lothe, Jakob,; Mallett, Phillip,; Marsden, Simon,; Mergenthal, Silvia,; Middeke, Martin,; Miller, J.Hillis,; Mitchell, Rebecca N.,; Müller, Timo,; Parkin-Gounelas, Ruth,; Pietrzak-Franger, Monika,; Pleßke, Nora,; Rostek, Joanna,; Roxburgh, Natalie,; Sadoff, Dianne F.,; Scholz, Susanne,; Seed, David,; Shires, Linda M.,; Sigler, Carolyn,; Sorian, Adina,; Sprang, Felix,; Straub, Julia,; Tomaiuolo, Saverio,; Voigts, Eckart,; Zwierlein, Anne-Julia,
• HerausgeberIn: Middeke, Martin,; Pietrzak-Franger, Monika,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies : Text and Theory ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 676 p.)

Part I of this authoritative handbook offers systematic essays, which deal with major historical, social, philosophical, political, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the English novel between 1830 and 1900. The essays offer a wide scope of aspects such as the Industrial Revolution, religion and sec...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Editors’ Preface
• Contents
• 0. Metamorphoses in English Culture and the Novel, 1830–1900: An Introduction
• Part I: Systematic Questions
• 1. Science and the Victorian Novel
• 2. Remediating Nineteenth-Century Narrative
• 3. God on the Wane? The Victorian Novel and Religion
• 4. Genres and Poetology: The Novel and the Way towards Aesthetic Self-Consciousness
• 5. The Art of Novel Writing: Victorian Theories
• 6. Victorian Gender Relations and the Novel
• 7. Empire – Economy – Materiality
• Part II: Close Readings
• 8. Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
• 9. Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845)
• 10. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
• 11. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
• 12. Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey (1847)
• 13. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
• 14. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848)
• 15. Charles Kingsley, Yeast: A Problem (1851)
• 16. Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853)
• 17. Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (1858)
• 18. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862)
• 19. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
• 20. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868)
• 21. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (1871)
• 22. George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871–1872; 1874)
• 23. George Meredith, The Egoist (1879)
• 24. Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean (1885)
• 25. Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
• 26. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
• 27. Sarah Grand, The Heavenly Twins (1893)
• 28. George Moore, Esther Waters (1894)
• 29. Mona Caird, The Daughters of Danaus (1894)
• 30. Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895)
• 31. H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
• 32. Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
• 33. Henry James, What Maisie Knew (1897)
• 34. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
• 35. Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1900–1901)
• 36. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903)
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Names
• List of Contributors