Textbook
The Victorian NovelISBN: 978-0-631-22628-4
Paperback
272 pages
February 2007, ©2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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- An inspiring student guide, free of critical jargon, which
challenges conventional ways of seeing 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.