The Victorian novel / / edited by Francis O'Gorman

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 344 p
• Disciplina: 823/.809
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
• Altri autori: O'GormanFrancis
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Victorian Novel -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Textual Note -- Introduction -- The range of Victorian fiction -- Difficulties of the term 'Victorian novel' -- Definition used in this book -- The changing face of criticism -- Outline of the book -- Outline of chapter 1 -- Outline of chapter 2 -- Outline of chapter 3 -- Outline of chapter 4 -- Outline of chapter 5 -- Outline of chapter 6 -- Outline of chapter 7 -- Outline of chapter 8 -- Fiction and the law -- Outline of chapter 9 -- Feminism and the contemporary academy -- Masculinity studies -- Canon revision in recent Victorian fiction studies -- Sensation fiction -- Gothic fiction -- New Woman fiction -- Popular fiction -- 'The Victorian novel' not 'Victorian novelists' -- The embeddedness of criticism -- Chapter Notes -- Further Reading -- 1 Early Criticism of the Victorian Novel from James Oliphant to David Cecil -- Outline of the chapter -- The state of the novel in 1900 -- University study of Victorian literature -- Principles of literary history -- The Survey: George Saintsbury (1845-1933) -- The approach of George Saintsbury -- Extract from George Saintsbury, The English Novel (1913) -- Edwin Morgan Forster's Aspects of the Novel (1927) -- E. M. Forster and critiquing literary history -- Lord David Cecil and Early Victorian Novelists (1934) -- The Modernist construction of Victorian fiction -- David Cecil's view of Victorian novels and culture -- Extract from Lord David Cecil, Early Victorian Novelists (1934) -- Chapter Notes -- Further Reading -- 2 F. R. Leavis and The Great Tradition -- Introduction -- Leavis's influence -- The principles of Leavis's criticism -- The idea of tradition -- 1980s' reactions to the politics of Leavis's criticism -- The principles of Leavis's The Great Tradition (1948) -- Its treatment of Dickens and Leavis's later views on him. ; Extract from F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition (1948) -- Chapter Notes -- Further Reading -- 3 Feminism and the Victorian Novel in the 1970s -- The influence of 1970s' feminism -- Ellen Moers's Literary Women (1976) -- Elaine Showalter and the female tradition -- Discussion of Showalter's A Literature of their Own (1977) -- 1980s' response to Showalter -- Extract from Elaine Showalter, A Literature of their Own (1977) -- Significance of Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) -- The Madwoman discussed -- Gilbert and Gubar's appraisal of The Madwoman -- Extract from Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) -- Chapter Notes -- Further Reading -- 4 Realism -- Preliminary questions -- Histories of Realism -- Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel (1957) -- The Cartesian certainties of realism -- Watt critiqued -- Alternative histories of realism -- Epistemology of Realism -- loan Williams and realism's certainties -- George Levine's view of realism and self-consciousness -- Extract from George Levine, The Realistic Imagination (1981) -- Psychological coherence in realism: Bersani's A Future for Astyanax (1976) -- Politics of classic realism and coherence criticized in the 1980s -- Extract from Catherine Belsey, Critical Practice (1980) -- Belsey critiqued -- D. A. Miller's The Novel and the Police (1988) -- The turn against realism in the 1980s -- Interest in Gothic -- Interest in the not-said of realism -- The feminist recuperation of realism in the 1980s -- Extract from Penny Boumehla, 'Realism and the Ends of Feminism'(1988) -- New Historicism and historicizing the real -- Rothfield's Vital Signs (1992) -- Nancy Armstrong and Kate Flint -- Conclusion -- Chapter Notes -- Further Reading -- 5 Social-problem Fiction: Historicism and Feminism -- What is social-problem fiction?. ; Critical interest in social-problem fiction -- Historicism and the Social-problem Novel -- Cazamian's reading in 1903 -- The significance of Raymond Williams -- Williams's 'structures of feeling' -- Williams's criticisms of social-problem fiction -- The knowable community in Williams's The English Novel (1970) -- Extract from Raymond Williams, The English Novel (1970) -- Williams's generalizations -- Sheila Smith's particularization of Williams -- More problems found in social-problem fiction -- Brantlinger's historicization: context 1 for social-problem fiction -- New Historicism: further contexts -- Context 2: Gallagher and the discourse over industrialism -- Context 3: Mary Poovey and the social body -- Extract from Mary Poovey, Making a Social Body (1995) -- Criticisms of New Historicism -- Guy and individualism in the Victorian mind -- Extract from Josephine Guy, The Victorian Social-problem Novel(1996) -- Feminism and the Social-problem Novel -- Recent work on Elizabeth Gaskell -- Bergmann's views on strong female characters -- Kestner's canon revision -- Nord, female novelists and transgression -- Harman, female novelists and transformation -- The future of social-problem fiction criticism -- Chapter Notes -- Further Reading -- 6 Language and Form -- Language and the Victorian Novel -- General linguistic studies of the novel -- Language of individual Victorian novelists -- Chapman's Forms of Speech (1994) -- Relation of arguments to thinking about realism -- Other documentary work on Victorian language -- Bakhtin and language studies -- Ingham's views on gender and class -- Extract from Patricia Ingham, The Language of Gender and Class (1996) -- Bakhtin and literature studies -- Form and the Victorian Novel -- Henry James on monster novels -- Van Ghent's reaction and emphasis on unity -- Extract from Dorothy Van Ghent, The English Novel (1953). ; Barbara Hardy's reaction: the advantages of fluidity in form -- Hillis Miller and form without God -- Deconstruction and incoherence -- Garrett's deconstructionist views of multi-plot fiction -- Extract from Peter Garrett, The Victorian Multiplot Novel (1980) -- Keen and narrative annexes -- Approaches to form in the 1980s and 1990s -- Chapter Notes -- Further Reading -- 7 Science and the Victorian Novel -- Early approaches to the field -- Stevenson's Darwin Among the Poets (1932) -- Henkin's Darwinism in the English Novel (1940) -- Cosslett's work on overlaps of science and literature -- Beer on Darwin and fiction -- Extract from Gillian Beer, Darwin's Plots (1983) -- Science and literature read alongside each other -- Levine's study of novelists who did not read science -- Levine's influential concept of 'one culture' -- Extract from George Levine, Darwin and the Novelists (1988) -- Dickens and science -- 1990s' interest in pathology and mind sciences -- Helen Small and love's madness -- Small's critique of the 'one-culture' model -- Sally Shuttleworth on psychology -- Logan on hysteria, Wood on neurology -- Eugenics and the novel -- Chapter Notes -- Further Reading -- 8 The History of the Book -- Diversity of History of the Book studies -- Outline of the chapter -- Bibliographical work of relevance to Victorian fiction -- Butt and Tillotson and the material conditions of authorship -- Altick and the reader -- The three-volume novel and its problems -- Extract from John Sutherland, Victorian Novelists and Publishers (1976) -- Feltes and Marxist readings of production and authorship -- Feminist revision of Sutherland's publishing history -- Working-class fiction recovered -- 1990s' emphasis on the reader -- Flint and the woman reader -- Gender and the marketplace. ; Extract from Catherine A. Judd, 'Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England' (1995) -- Chapter Notes -- Further Reading -- 9 Postcolonial Readings -- Range and diversity of postcolonialism -- Central interests of postcolonialism -- Early views of Victorian fiction and empire -- Said's Orientalism (1978) and its consequences for fiction -- Spivak and the embeddedness of fiction in colonial ideology -- Extract from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism' (1985) -- Brantlinger's Rule of Darkness (1988) and explicit engagements with empire -- Bivona and the hidden presence of empire -- Perera and imperial anxieties -- Sharpe and fiction's collusion with ideology -- Richards and the imperial archive -- Azim and the imperial form of fiction -- Extract from Firdous Azim, The Colonial Rise of the Novel (1993) -- Deirdre David, women and the empire -- Meyer and fiction's double relationship with colonial ideology -- Extract from Susan Meyer, Imperialism at Home (1996) -- Chapter Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "O'Gorman functions as more author than editor in this second volume in the "Blackwell Guides to Criticism" series, providing a lucid, readable narrative accessible to the non-specialist.[...] In its definition and summary of current critical theories, the book will prove useful to all students of literature, not just those interested in the Victorian period. Highly recommended for all collections." Choice "this will be a useful companion to any English or History course whatever the level of study and will provide a concise and clear critique that can be applied to any Victorian novel." Reference Reviews "It is the kind of book you come back to, repeatedly consult, and would find absorbing whether or not you were an academic teacher. It is likely to serve for a long time as a fruitful reminder of how the practice of literary criticism has permanently changed the way we enjoy the old-fashioned narrative pleasures of the Victorian novel." The Brown Book.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Victorian novel
• ISBN: 9780470690109; 0470779853; 9780470779859
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819746603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell guides to criticism.