{"product_id":"the-victorian-novel-isbn-9780631226284","title":"The Victorian Novel","description":"This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Brontë’s \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e (1847) and Bram Stoker’s \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan’s \u003ci\u003ePilgrim’s Progress\u003c\/i\u003e (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684).\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAlso covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Illustrations.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to Use This Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContext 1: Time Maps.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrelude: 1830–1846.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevolutions: 1847–1849.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEquipoise: 1850–1870.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTurning the Tide: 1871–1880.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Last Decades: 1881–1901.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContext 2: Changing Perspectives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Things As They Are'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligion and Morals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDetectives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContext 3: Foundations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Truth of the Heart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAffairs of the Heart(h).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWays of Seeing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Modality of Melodrama.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe White Rabbit’s Watch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Authors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Harrison Ainsworth (1805–82).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalter Besant (1836–1910).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Elizabeth Braddon (later Maxwell) (1835–1915).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlotte Brontë, 'Currer Bell' (1816–55), Emily [Jane] Brontë, ‘Ellis Bell’ (1818–48), Anne Brontë, 'Acton Bell' (1820–49).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRhoda Broughton (1840–1920).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e[William] Wilkie Collins (1824–89).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarie [Isabel Marie] Corelli [née Mills, later Mackay] (1855–1924).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles [John Huffam] Dickens (1812–70).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenjamin Disraeli (1804–81).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e[Sir] Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Eliot (née Mary Anne\/Marian Evans) (1819–80).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson) 1810–65.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge [Robert] Gissing (1857–1903).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e[Sir] H[enry] Rider Haggard (1856–1925).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Hardy (1840–1928).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eG[eorge] P[ayne] R[aynesford] James (1801–60).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry James (1843–1916).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDouglas [William] Jerrold (1803–57).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeraldine E[ndsor] Jewsbury (1812–80).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Kingsley (1819–75).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e[Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1830–76).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e[Joseph Thomas] Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–73).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdward Bulwer-Lytton [until 1843, Edward George Earle Lytton] (1803–73).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Macdonald (1824–1905).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrederick Marryat (1792–1848).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarriet Martineau (1802–76).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Meredith (1828–1909).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge [Augustus] Moore (1852–1933).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargaret Oliphant [née Wilson] (1828–97).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOuida (Marie Louise de la Ramée, 1839–1908).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Reade (1814–84).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eG[eorge] W[illiam] M[acarthur] Reynolds (1814–79).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Malcolm Rymer (1803?–84).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Louis [Lewis Balfour] Stevenson (1850–94).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eR[obert] S[mith] Surtees (1805–64).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnthony Trollope (1815–82).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMrs T[homas] Humphry Ward (née Mary Augusta Arnold) (1851–1920).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eH[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866–1946).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e[William Hale White] Mark Rutherford (1831–1913).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEllen Wood [Mrs Henry Wood, née Ellen Price] (1814–87).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Texts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMajor Presences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Bunyan, \u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim’s Progress from this World to the Next\u003c\/i\u003e (Part 1, 1678; Part II, 1684).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir Walter Scott, \u003ci\u003eWaverley; or, ’Tis Sixty years Since\u003c\/i\u003e (1814).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Shelley, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus\u003c\/i\u003e (1818; revised 1831).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePierce Egan, Sr, \u003ci\u003eLife in London\u003c\/i\u003e (1820–1).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Carlyle, \u003ci\u003eSartor Resartus\u003c\/i\u003e (1833–4).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMain Texts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Dickens, \u003ci\u003eOliver Twist\u003c\/i\u003e (1837–8).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eG. W. M. Reynolds, \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of London\u003c\/i\u003e (1844–6).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeraldine Jewsbury, \u003ci\u003eZoe\u003c\/i\u003e (1845).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlotte Brontë, \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e (1847).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmily Brontë, \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e (1847).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eW. M. Thackeray, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e (1847–8).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eW. M. Thackeray, \u003ci\u003ePendennis\u003c\/i\u003e (1848–50).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Dickens, \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003e (1852–3).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlotte Brontë, \u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e (1853).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Gaskell, \u003ci\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/i\u003e (1854–5).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnthony Trollope, \u003ci\u003eBarchester Towers\u003c\/i\u003e (1857).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Eliot, \u003ci\u003eAdam Bede\u003c\/i\u003e (1859).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilkie Collins, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/i\u003e (1860) 0.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Dickens, \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e (1860–1).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMrs Henry [Ellen] Wood, \u003ci\u003eEast Lynne\u003c\/i\u003e (1861).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Elizabeth Braddon, \u003ci\u003eLady Audley’s Secret\u003c\/i\u003e (1861–2).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Kingsley, \u003ci\u003eThe Water-Babies\u003c\/i\u003e (1863).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], \u003ci\u003eAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e (1865), \u003ci\u003eThrough the Looking Glass\u003c\/i\u003e (1871).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOuida [Marie Louise de la Ramée], \u003ci\u003eUnder Two Flags\u003c\/i\u003e (1867).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eR[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, \u003ci\u003eLorna Doone\u003c\/i\u003e (1869).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Eliot, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e (1871–2).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnthony Trollope, \u003ci\u003eThe Way We Live Now\u003c\/i\u003e (1874–5).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Meredith, \u003ci\u003eThe Egoist\u003c\/i\u003e (1879).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry James, \u003ci\u003ePortrait of a Lady\u003c\/i\u003e (1881).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e[Olive Schreiner] Ralph Iron, \u003ci\u003eThe Story of an African Farm\u003c\/i\u003e (1883).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson, \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\u003c\/i\u003e (1886).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir Henry Rider Haggard, \u003ci\u003eShe\u003c\/i\u003e (1887).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Gissing, \u003ci\u003eNew Grub Street\u003c\/i\u003e (1891).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Hardy, \u003ci\u003eTess of the D’Urbervilles\u003c\/i\u003e (1891).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Moore, \u003ci\u003eEsther Waters\u003c\/i\u003e (1894).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarie Corelli, \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of Satan\u003c\/i\u003e (1895).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eH. G. Wells, \u003ci\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/i\u003e (1895).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArthur Morrison, \u003ci\u003eA Child of the Jago\u003c\/i\u003e (1896).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBram [Abraham] Stoker, \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e (1897).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Butler, \u003ci\u003eThe Way of All Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e (1902).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTopics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChildren’s Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColonial Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllustrated Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIrish Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘New Woman’ Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublishing Formats.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegional Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligious Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience, Utopias and Dystopias.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSensation Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Problem Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Supernatural.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking-class Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eLouis James’s\u003c\/b\u003e writing reflects his interests in Victorian and postcolonial literature, and his main publications include \u003ci\u003eFiction for the Working Man 1830-50\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), \u003ci\u003ePrint and the People\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) and \u003ci\u003eCaribbean Writing in English\u003c\/i\u003e (1999). After a much-travelled academic life he now lives with his wife and two cats near the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is an Emeritus Professor of English.  This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. The author explores the extremely varied and often experimental prose fiction of the period, paying attention to contemporary bestsellers as well as to major literary works. He reminds the reader that most Victorian novelists had their imaginations shaped not by High Victorianism, but by the ideals and sensibility of the Romantic period, and suggests that their work therefore embodies a tension between idealism and a new materialist objectivity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe volume is based on the premise that a broad understanding of the Victorian period powerfully assists our understanding of its prose fiction. For this reason, the author not only provides overviews of the historical and social contexts of the Victorian novel, but also considers its relationship to historical, religious and biographical writing. The literary achievements of major novelists receive individual entries, while a section on topics considers issues such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in an accessible style without critical jargon, this imaginative study restores a sense of vital originality to a major body of literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990363324645,"sku":"NP9780631226284","price":33.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631226284.jpg?v=1761787520","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-victorian-novel-isbn-9780631226284","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}