{"product_id":"the-victorian-novel-isbn-9780631227038","title":"The Victorian Novel","description":"This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.  Acknowledgements xv  \u003cp\u003eTextual Note xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Early Criticism of the Victorian Novel from James Oliphant to David Cecil 17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe State of the Novel in 1900.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUniversity Study of Victorian Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrinciples of Literary History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Approach of George Saintsbury.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Saintsbury's \u003ci\u003eThe English Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (1913).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE.M. Forster and Critiquing Literary History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Modernist Construction of Victorian Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Cecil's View of Victorian Novels and Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Cecil's \u003ci\u003eEarly Victorian Novelists\u003c\/i\u003e (1934).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. F.R. Leavis and \u003ci\u003eThe Great Tradition 46\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutline of the Chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeavis's Influence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Principles of Leavis' Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Idea of Tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1980s' Reactions to the Politics of Leavis' Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Principles of Leavis' \u003ci\u003eThe Great Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e (1948).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIts Treatment of Dickens and Leavis' Later Views on Him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from \u003ci\u003eThe Great Tradition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Feminism and the Victorian Novel in the 1970s 66\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Influence of 1970s' Feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutline of the Chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEllen Moers' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Women\u003c\/i\u003e (1976).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElaine Showalter and the Female Tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion of Showalter's \u003ci\u003eA Literature of Their Own\u003c\/i\u003e (1977).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1980s' Response to Showalter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from \u003ci\u003eA Literature of Their Own.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSignificance of Gilbert and Gubar's \u003ci\u003eThe Madwoman in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e (1979)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Madwoman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGilbertand Gubar's Appraisal of \u003ci\u003eThe Madwoman.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from \u003ci\u003eThe Madwoman.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Realism 94\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreliminary Questions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutline of the Chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistories of Realism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIan Watt's \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (1957) Discussed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cartesian Certainties of Realism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWatt Critiqued.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlternative Histories of Realism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpistemology of Realism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIoan Williams and Realism's Certainties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Levine's View of Realism and Self-Consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Levine's \u003ci\u003eThe Realist Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e (1981).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsychological Coherence in Realism: Bersani's \u003ci\u003eA Future for Astyanax\u003c\/i\u003e (1976).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitics of Classic Realism and Coherence Criticized in 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Belsey's \u003ci\u003eCritical Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (1980).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBelsey Critiqued.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD.A. Miller's \u003ci\u003eThe Novel and the Police\u003c\/i\u003e (1988) Discussed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Turn Against Realism in the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterest in Gothic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterest in the not-Said of Realism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Feminist Recuperation of Realism in 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Boumehla's 'Realism and the Ends of Feminism' (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Historicism and Historicizing the Real.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRothfield's \u003ci\u003eVital Signs\u003c\/i\u003e (1992).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNancy Armstrong and Kate Flint.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Social-Problem Fiction: Historicism and Feminism 149\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is Social-Problem Fiction?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutline of the First Part of Chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCazamian's Reading in 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Significance of Raymond Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliams's 'Structures of Feeling'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliams's Criticisms of Social-Problem Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Knowable Community in Williams's \u003ci\u003eThe English Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (1970).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from \u003ci\u003eThe English Novel.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliams's Generalizations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSheila Smith's Particularization of Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore Problems Found in Social-Problem Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrantlinger's Historicization: a Context for Social-Problem Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Historicism: Further Contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContext 2. Gallagher and the Discourse over Industrialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContext 3. Mary Poovey and the Social Body.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Mary Poovey's \u003ci\u003eMaking a Social Body\u003c\/i\u003e (1995).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCriticisms of New Historicism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuy and Individualism in the Victorian Mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Guy's \u003ci\u003eThe Victorian Social-Problem\u003c\/i\u003e Novel (1996).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeminism and the Social-Problem Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutline of Second Part of Chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecent Work on Elizabeth Gaskell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBergmann's Views on Strong Female Characters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKestner's Canon Revision.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNord, Female Novelists, and Transgression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarman, Female Novelists, and Transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Future of Social-Problem Fiction Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Language and Form 196\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutline of the Chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage and The Victorian Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Linguistic Studies of the Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage of Individual Victorian Novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapman's \u003ci\u003eForms of Speech\u003c\/i\u003e (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelation of Arguments to Thinking about Realism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOther Documentary Work on Victorian Language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBakhtin and Language Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIngham's Views on Gender and Class.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Ingham \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Gender and Class\u003c\/i\u003e (1996).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBakhtin and Literature Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForm and The Victorian Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry James on Monster Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVan Ghent's Reaction and Emphasis on Unity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Van Ghent \u003ci\u003eThe English Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (1953).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarbara Hardy's Reaction: the Advantages of Fluidity in Form.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHillis Miller and Form without God.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeconstruction and Incoherence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGarrett's Deconstructionist Views of Multiplot Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Garrett's \u003ci\u003eThe Victorian Multiplot Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (1980).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKeen and Narrative Annexes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApproaches to Form in 1980s and 90s Summarized.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading (Including Narratology)\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Science and the Victorian Novel 230\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutline of the Chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Approaches to Field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStevenson's \u003ci\u003eDarwin Among the Poets\u003c\/i\u003e (1932) Discussed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenkin's \u003ci\u003eDarwinism in the English Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (1940) Discussed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCosslett's Work on Overlaps of Science and Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeer on Darwin and Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Beer's \u003ci\u003eDarwin's Plots\u003c\/i\u003e (1983).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience and Literature Read Alongside Each Other.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLevine's Study of Novelists Who Did Not Read Science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLevine's Influential Concept of the One Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Levine's \u003ci\u003eDarwin and the Novelists\u003c\/i\u003e (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDickens and Science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1990s' Interest in Pathology and Mind Sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelen Small and Love's Madness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSmall's Critique of the One Culture Model.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSally Shuttleworth on Psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLogan on Hysteria, Wood on Neurology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEugenics and the Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. The History of the Book 261\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiversity of History of the Book Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutline of the Chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographical Work of Relevance to Victorian Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eButt and Tillotson and the Material Conditions of Authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAltick and the Reader.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Three-Volume Novel and Its Problems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Sutherland's \u003ci\u003eVictorian Novelists and Publishers\u003c\/i\u003e (1976).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeltes and Marxist Readings of Production and Authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeminist Revision of Sutherland Publishing History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking-Class Fiction Recovered.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1990's Emphasis on the Reader.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFlint and the Woman Reader.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender and the Marketplace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatherine Judd's 'Male Pseudonyms and Female.'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthority in Victorian England' (1995).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Postcolonial Readings 306\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRange and Diversity of Postcolonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCentral Interests of Postcolonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutline of the Chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Views of Victorian Fiction and Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSaid's \u003ci\u003eOrientalism\u003c\/i\u003e (1978) and Its Consequences for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpivak's Critique of Feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Embeddedness of Fiction in Colonial Ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Spivak 'Three Women's Texts and Critique of Imperialism'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrantlinger's \u003ci\u003eRule of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e (1988) and Explicit Engagements with Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBivona and the Hidden Presence of Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerera and Colonial Anxieties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSharpe and Fiction's Collusion with Ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichards and the Imperial Archive.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAzim and the Imperial Form of Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from Azim's \u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Rise of the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (1993).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeirdre David, Women, and the Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeyer and Fiction's Double Relationship with Colonial Ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtract from \u003ci\u003eImperialism at Home\u003c\/i\u003e (1996).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 335\u003c\/p\u003e  \"O'Gorman functions as more author than editor in this second volume in the \"Blackwell Guides to Criticism\" series, providing a lucid, readable narrative accessible to the non-specialist.[...] In its definition and summary of current critical theories, the book will prove useful to all students of literature, not just those interested in the Victorian period. Highly recommended for all collections.\" \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"this will be a useful companion to any English or History course whatever the level of study and will provide a concise and clear critique that can be applied to any Victorian novel.\" \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It is the kind of book you come back to, repeatedly consult, and would find absorbing whether or not you were an academic teacher. It is likely to serve for a long time as a fruitful reminder of how the practice of literary criticism has permanently changed the way we enjoy the old-fashioned narrative pleasures of the Victorian novel.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Brown Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrancis O'Gorman\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Victorian Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds. He has written widely on the Victorian period, including the books \u003ci\u003eJohn Ruskin\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eLate Ruskin: New Contexts \u003c\/i\u003e(2001), and co-edited collections on \u003ci\u003eMargaret Oliphant\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eRuskin and Gender \u003c\/i\u003e(2002), and \u003ci\u003eThe Victorians and the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eReassessing the Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). He has also written articles and book chapters on Ruskin, Tyndall, Robert Browning, Tennyson, Michael Field, and Victorian masculinities. He is currently working on an annotated anthology of Victorian poetry (Blackwell, forthcoming), and writing more on Ruskin.  This guide looks at how the Victorian novel has been read over the past hundred years. Unlike other critical guides, it not only provides students with examples of significant strands of criticism, but also helps them to make sense of these articles and extracts by means of a narrative and critical framework. The novelists referred to are the acknowledged great names of Victorian fiction, including the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eA short opening section describing and representing early critical responses is complemented by a longer second section looking at current themes in criticism, such as genre, gender, politics, science, language, the canon, and modes of production. The volume as a whole enhances students' critical repertoire, encourages them to recognise the situatedness of all criticism, and helps them to engage with critical debates about the Victorian novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990363259109,"sku":"NP9780631227038","price":118.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631227038.jpg?v=1761787519","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-victorian-novel-isbn-9780631227038","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}