Textbook
Reading the Nineteenth-century Novel: Austen to EliotISBN: 978-0-631-23143-1
Paperback
232 pages
January 2008, ©2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Offers a close analysis of major-nineteenth century novels
including Persuasion, Middlemarch, The Heart of Midlothian, Vanity
Fair, Mary Barton, Bleak House, The Warden, Wuthering Heights, and
Jane Eyre
- Explores significant theoretical approaches, including
Foucauldian, New Historicist, and Post-colonial criticism
- Employs an “appreciative” model of criticism,
sparking a renewed interest in engaging with Victorian aesthetics
on its own terms
- Provides an overview of the social, economic, and political change influenced by fiction of the time period