O Gorman

Gebundenes Buch

Victorian Novel

Beschreibung

This guide looks at how the Victorian novel has been read over the past hundred years. Unlike other critical guides, it not only provides students with examples of significant strands of criticism, but also helps them to make sense of these articles and extracts by means of a narrative and critical framework. The novelists referred to are the acknowledged great names of Victorian fiction, including the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope. A short opening section describing and representing early critical responses is complemented by a longer second section looking at current themes in criticism, such as genre, gender, politics, science, language, the canon, and modes of production. The volume as a whole enhances students' critical repertoire, encourages them to recognise the situatedness of all criticism, and helps them to engage with critical debates about the Victorian novel.

Autor

Francis O'Gorman is Lecturer in Victorian Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds. He has written widely on the Victorian period, including the books John Ruskin (1999) and Late Ruskin: New Contexts (2001), and co-edited collections on Margaret Oliphant (1999), Ruskin and Gender (2002), and The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century Reassessing the Tradition (2003). He has also written articles and book chapters on Ruskin, Tyndall, Robert Browning, Tennyson, Michael Field, and Victorian masculinities. He is currently working on an annotated anthology of Victorian poetry (Blackwell, forthcoming), and writing more on Ruskin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 718g
• ISBN-13: 9780631227038
• ISBN-10: 0631227032
• Artikelnr.: 21504202

Rezensionen

"O'Gorman functions as more author than editor in this secondvolume in the "Blackwell Guides to Criticism" series, providing alucid, readable narrative accessible to the non-specialist.[...] Inits definition and summary of current critical theories, the bookwill prove useful to all students of literature, not just thoseinterested in the Victorian period. Highly recommended for allcollections." Choice

"this will be a useful companion to any English or Historycourse whatever the level of study and will provide a concise andclear 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 academicteacher. It is likely to serve for a long time as a fruitfulreminder of how the practice of literary criticism has permanentlychanged the way we enjoy the old-fashioned narrative pleasures ofthe Victorian novel." The Brown Book