Descripción
This book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts including Dickens's Oliver Twist, Gaskell's North and South and Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
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The Victorian Novel in Context examines the changing readership resulting from the growth of mass literacy and the effect that this had on the form of the novel. Taking texts from the early, mid and late Victorian period it encourages students to consider how serialization shaped the nineteenth-century novel. It highlights the importance of politics, religion and the evolutionary debate in 'classic' Victorian texts.
Addressing key concerns including realist writing, literature and imperialism, urbanization and women's writing, it introduces students to a variety of the most important critical approaches to the novels. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying the Victorian novel.
Autor: Grace Moore
Editorial: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publicado: 08/30/2012
Páginas: 184
Tipo de encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Peso: 0.55lbs
Tamaño: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781847064899
ISBN10: 1847064892
Categorías BISAC:
- Crítica literaria | General
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The Victorian Novel in Context examines the changing readership resulting from the growth of mass literacy and the effect that this had on the form of the novel. Taking texts from the early, mid and late Victorian period it encourages students to consider how serialization shaped the nineteenth-century novel. It highlights the importance of politics, religion and the evolutionary debate in 'classic' Victorian texts.
Addressing key concerns including realist writing, literature and imperialism, urbanization and women's writing, it introduces students to a variety of the most important critical approaches to the novels. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying the Victorian novel.
Autor: Grace Moore
Editorial: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publicado: 08/30/2012
Páginas: 184
Tipo de encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Peso: 0.55lbs
Tamaño: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781847064899
ISBN10: 1847064892
Categorías BISAC:
- Crítica literaria | General
Sobre el Autor
Grace Moore enseña en el programa de Inglés y Teatro
de la Universidad de Melbourne, Australia. Es autora de Dickens and Empire (Ashgate, 2004),
que fue preseleccionado para el Premio de Literatura de Nueva Gales del Sur de 2006
por investigación literaria, editora de Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth
Century (Ashgate, 2011), y coeditora (con Andrew Maunder) de Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation
(Ashgate, 2004).