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Author : Norman N. Feltes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641389855
Author : N. N. Feltes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226241180
In this sophisticated application of modern Marxist thought, N. N. Feltes demonstrates the determining influence of nineteenth-century publishing practices on the Victorian novel. His dialectical analysis leads to a comprehensive explanation of the development of capitalist novel production into the twentieth century. Feltes focuses on five English novels: Dickens's Pickwick Papers, Thackeray's Henry Esmond, Eliot's Middlemarch, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Forster's Howards End. Published at approximately twenty year intervals between 1836 and 1920, they each represent a different first-publication format: part-issue, three-volume, bimonthly, magazine-serial, and single-volume. Drawing on publishing, economic, and literary history, Feltes offers a broad, synthetic explanation of the relationship between the production and format of each novel, and the way in which these determine, in the last instance, the ideology of the text. Modes of Production in Victorian Novels provides a Marxist structuralist analysis of historical events and practices described elsewhere only empirically, and traces their relationship to literary texts which have been analyzed only idealistically, thus setting these familiar works firmly and perhaps permanently into a framework of historic materialism.
Author : Troy J. Bassett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030319267
Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott’s popular novels in the 1820s, the three-volume novel became the standard format for new fiction aimed at middle-class audiences through the support of circulating libraries. Following a quantitative analysis examining who wrote and published these novels, the book investigates the success of publisher Richard Bentley in producing three-volume novels, the experiences of the W. H. Smith circulating library in distributing them, the difficulties of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and George Moore in writing them, and the resistance of new publishers such as Arrowsmith and Unwin to publishing them. Rather than faltering, the three-volume novel stubbornly endured until its abandonment in the 1890s.
Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470779859
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Author : Simon R Frost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317322306
This study shows how aesthetics and economics have been combined in a great work of literature. Frost examines the history of Middlemarch’s composition and publication within the context of Victorian demand, then goes on to consider the interpretation, reception and consumption of the book.
Author : Beth Palmer
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781292003887
An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the era, this Companion explores influential dramatic works by Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde; the poetry of mourning; novelistic genres, including social problem novels and sensation fiction; and the literature of the fin de siècle’s aesthetes and decadents. Cultural and historical debates – focussing on empire, national identity, science and evolution, print culture and gender – supply essential context alongside discussion of relevant critical theory.
Author : Laurie Langbauer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501744570
Laurie Langbauer argues that our worldview is shaped not just by great public events but also by the most overlooked and familiar aspects of common life—"the everyday." This sphere of the everyday has always been a crucial component of the novel, but has been ignored by many writers and critics and long associated with the writing of women. Focusing on the linked series of novels characteristic of later Victorian and early modern fiction—such as Margaret Oliphant's Carlingford Chronicles or the Sherlock Holmes stories—she investigates how authors make use of the everyday as a foundation to support their versions of realism. What happens when—in the series novel, or in contemporary theory—the everyday becomes a site of contestation and debate? Langbauer pursues this question through the novels of Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Trollope, and Arthur Conan Doyle—and in the writings of Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and John Galsworthy as they reflect on their Victorian predecessors. She also explores accounts of the everyday in the works of such theorists as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Sigmund Freud, as well as materialist critics, including George Lukacs, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. Her work shows how these writers link the series and the everyday in ways that reveal different approaches to comprehending the obscurity that makes up daily life.
Author : G. Law
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230286740
Drawing on extensive archival research in both Britain and the United States, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press represents the first comprehensive study of the publication of instalment fiction in Victorian newspapers. Often overlooked, this phenomenon is shown to have exerted a crucial influence on the development of the fiction market in the last decades of the nineteenth century. A detailed description of the practice of syndication is followed by a wide-ranging discussion of its implications for readership, authorship, and fictional form.
Author : Lisa Rodensky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199533145
The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked.
Author : Louis James
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405152280
This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts. Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing. Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684). Also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.
Author : Maureen Moran
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826488838
An introduction to Victorian literature and its context from 1837-1900 includes historical, cultural, political, and intellectual background.
Author : David Skilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317209201
The Victorian period was the age of the novel and critics at the time clearly saw the importance of prose fiction. First published in 1993, this anthology contains over fifty original extracts from contemporary critics on the early and mid-Victorian novel. Arranged thematically, the volume covers such topics as literary form, the social responsibility of literature, issues of politics and gender, the influence of criticism, realism, plot and characterisation, imagination and creativity, and the office and social standing of the novelist. The introductions and notes draw together the large number of voices and guide the reader through the Victorian literary critical debate. This accessible and invaluable guide will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature.
Author : Peter Melville Logan,Olakunle George,Susan Hegeman,Efraín Kristal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118723890
Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words. Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines. The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel. This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.
Author : Dr Adelene Buckland,Dr Beth Palmer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478492
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped produce-fifty years of scholarly inquiry into the ways and means by which the Victorians read. Now, A Return to the Common Reader asks what Altick's concept of the 'common reader' actually means in the wake of a half-century of research. Digging deep into unusual and eclectic archives and hitherto-overlooked sources, its authors give new understanding to the masses of newly literate readers who picked up books in the Victorian period. They find readers in prisons, in the barracks, and around the world, and they remind us of the power of those forgotten readers to find forbidden texts, shape new markets, and drive the production of new reading material across a century. Inspired and informed by Altick's seminal work, A Return to the Common Reader is a cutting-edge collection which dramatically reconfigures our understanding of the ordinary Victorian readers whose efforts and choices changed our literary culture forever.
Author : Kirby-Jane Hallum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317317982
Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their approach, style and gender.
