LEADER 03202nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910456051103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-63718-8 010 $a9786610637188 010 $a0-313-01117-6 035 $a(CKB)111087027038268 035 $a(EBL)3000876 035 $a(OCoLC)52768633 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000126227 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11132746 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126227 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10032228 035 $a(PQKB)10772813 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000876 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5296662 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3000876 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10040692 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5296662 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL63718 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027038268 100 $a20010626d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to the Victorian novel$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by William Baker and Kenneth Womack 210 $aWestport, Conn. $cGreenwood Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (457 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-313-31407-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [421]-426) and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Preface; I Victorian Literary Contexts; II Victorian Cultural Contexts; III Victorian Genres; IV Major Authors of the Victorian Era; V Contemporary Critical Approaches to the Victorian Novel; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors 330 $aVictorian novels remain enormously popular today. Some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught at all levels. These works have also attracted a great deal of critical attention, with much current scholarship examining the novel in relation to its historical, political, and cultural contexts. This reference work is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel, its background, and its legacy. The first section looks at the emergence of the Victorian novel and its literary precursors, with particular emphasis on the growth of serialization and the development of the novel of syndication. The second explores significant and social and cultural facets of 19th-century British literature, while the third discusses the principal features of different genres, such as ghost stories, the Gothic, detective fiction, the social problem novel, and contemporary film adaptations. Individual authors are examined in the fourth section, while the fifth overviews various critical approaches and their application to 19th-century fiction. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 676 $a823/.809 701 $aBaker$b William$f1944-$0876013 701 $aWomack$b Kenneth$0175931 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456051103321 996 $aA companion to the Victorian novel$92444412 997 $aUNINA