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