A companion to the Victorian novel [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William Baker and Kenneth Womack

• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (457 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.809
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BakerWilliam <1944-> WomackKenneth
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-426) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Victorian 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to the Victorian novel
• ISBN: 1-280-63718-8; 9786610637188; 0-313-01117-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456051103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II