LEADER 05387oam 2200637 a 450 001 9910814144803321 005 20240410144459.0 010 $a979-84-00-62946-4 010 $a1-280-63718-8 010 $a9786610637188 010 $a0-313-01117-6 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400629464 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(Au-PeEL)EBL3000876 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10040692 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5296662 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL63718 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000876 035 $a(OCoLC)47255311 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400629464BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027038268 100 $a20010626e20022024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to the Victorian novel /$fedited by William Baker and Kenneth Womack 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cGreenwood Press,$d2002. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 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 $aMachine generated contents note: I. Victorian Literary Contexts -- The Victorian Novel Emerges, 1800-1840 -- Ian Duncan -- Periodicals and Syndication -- Graham Law -- Book Publishing and the Victorian Literary Marketplace -- Peter L. Shillingsburg -- Victorian Illustrators and Illustration -- Lynn Alexander -- II. Victorian Cultural Contexts -- The Nineteenth-Century Political Novel -- Julian Wolfreys -- The Sociological Contexts of Victorian Fiction -- M. Clare Loughlin-Chow -- Faith, Religion, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Nancy Cervetti -- Philosophy and the Victorian Literary Aesthetic -- Martin Bidney -- Science and the Scientist in Victorian Fiction -- Michael H. Whitworth -- Law and the Victorian Novel -- Elizabeth E Judge -- Intoxication and the Victorian Novel -- Kathleen McCormack -- III. Victorian Genres -- Ghosts and Hauntings in the Victorian Novel -- Lucie J. Armitt -- The Victorian Gothic -- Peter J. Kitson -- Victorian Detective Fiction -- Lillian Nayder -- The Victorian Social Problem Novel -- James G. Nelson -- The Victorian Sensation Novel -- Helen Debenham -- Victorian Juvenilia -- Christine Alexander -- Moving Pictures: Film and the Representation of Victorian Fictions -- Todd F Davis -- IV. Major Authors of the Victorian Era -- Religion in the Novels of Charlotte and Anne Bronte -- Marianne Thormahlen -- Victorian Professionalism and Charlotte Bronte's Villette -- Russell Poole -- Charles Dickens -- K J. Fielding -- George Eliot: Critical Responses to Daniel Deronda -- Nancy Henry -- George Eliot's Reading Revolution and the Mythical School of -- Criticism -- William R. McKelvy -- Thomas Hardy -- Edward Neill -- The Vanities of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair -- Juliet McMaster -- Anthony Trollope and "Classic Realism" -- K M. Newton -- George Meredith at the Crossways -- Margaret Harris -- "Not Burying the One Talent": Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Duty -- Barbara Quinn Schmidt -- Wilkie Collins's Challenges to Pre-Raphaelite Gender Constructs -- Sophia Andres -- V Contemporary Critical Approaches to the Victorian Novel -- Postcolonial Readings -- Roslyn Jolly -- Feminist Criticism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Eileen Gillooly -- Otherness and Identity in the Victorian Novel -- Michael Galchinsky -- 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 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 676 $a823/.809 701 $aBaker$b William$f1944-$01626515 701 $aWomack$b Kenneth$0175931 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814144803321 996 $aA companion to the Victorian novel$94042804 997 $aUNINA