Volume 3 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English traces how many narrative genres, conventions, and preoccupations associated with Victorian fiction emerged and developed as the novel became established at the centre of British national culture. It includes sections on book history, major authors, and contemporary contexts.
Volume 3 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English traces how many narrative genres, conventions, and preoccupations associated with Victorian fiction emerged and developed as the novel became established at the centre of British national culture. It includes sections on book history, major authors, and contemporary contexts.
John Kucich is a Professor of English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has written numerous books and essays on nineteenth-century literature and culture. His publications include Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (Georgia, 1981), Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens (California, 1987), The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (Cornell, 1994), and Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class (Princeton, 2007). He has also edited, with Dianne F. Sadoff, Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (Minnesota, 2000). ; Jenny Bourne Taylor is a Professor of English at the University of Sussex. She has written widely on nineteenth-century literature and culture. Her publication include (with Sally Shuttleworth) Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts (Clarendon, 1998), and ed., with Margot Finn and Michael Lobba
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Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Illustrations List of Tables General Editor's Preface Introduction Editorial Note Note on British Currency before Decimalization Part I: Novelists, Readers, and the Fiction Industry 1 Joanne Shattock: The Publishing Industry 2 Deborah Wynne: Readers and Reading Practices 3 Graham Law: The Professionalization of Authorship Part II: Varieties and Genres 4 Richard Maxwell: The Historical Novel 5 Deborah Lutz: Gothic Fictions in the Nineteenth Century 6 Richard Salmon: The English Bildungsroman 7 Dianne F. Sadoff: The Silver Fork Novel 8 Heather Worthington: The Newgate Novel 9 Nancy Armstrong: The Sensation Novel 10 Claudia Nelson: Children's Fiction 11 Susan Fraiman: The Domestic Novel Part III: Major Authors in Context 12 Lyn Pykett: Charles Dickens: The Novelist as Public Figure 13 John Bowen: The Brontes and the Transformations of Romanticism 14 Dinah Birch: George Eliot and Intellectual Culture Part IV
Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Illustrations List of Tables General Editor's Preface Introduction Editorial Note Note on British Currency before Decimalization Part I: Novelists, Readers, and the Fiction Industry 1 Joanne Shattock: The Publishing Industry 2 Deborah Wynne: Readers and Reading Practices 3 Graham Law: The Professionalization of Authorship Part II: Varieties and Genres 4 Richard Maxwell: The Historical Novel 5 Deborah Lutz: Gothic Fictions in the Nineteenth Century 6 Richard Salmon: The English Bildungsroman 7 Dianne F. Sadoff: The Silver Fork Novel 8 Heather Worthington: The Newgate Novel 9 Nancy Armstrong: The Sensation Novel 10 Claudia Nelson: Children's Fiction 11 Susan Fraiman: The Domestic Novel Part III: Major Authors in Context 12 Lyn Pykett: Charles Dickens: The Novelist as Public Figure 13 John Bowen: The Brontes and the Transformations of Romanticism 14 Dinah Birch: George Eliot and Intellectual Culture Part IV
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