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This collection focuses on novels and essays from the beginning of Victoria's reign through to the end of the 19th century and into our own times. The essays represent a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints on fiction, and they deal with a number of lesser-known Victorian works as well as with some of the most canonical texts of the period. The chronological range of the volume is extended by essays which explore Victorian texts' connections with earlier literature and 20th-century novelists' responses to Victorian fiction.
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After a century of reading Victorian fiction, scholars are exploring a new eclecticism. Written by outstanding British critics of the period, these 14 essays express a diversity of opinion characteristic of current postmodernism. Though revisionist in the main, the essays do not debunk stereotypical Victorian concepts. On the contrary, the stated aim of the contributors, as articulated in the introduction, is "to emphasize the ideological, aesthetic, intellectual and moral diversity of both Victorian fiction and its critical reception." Toward that end, an informative lead essay uses close readings of texts by Dickens, Gaskell, and Eliot to reassess the role of sentimentality and survey the temporality of both the Victorian novel as a form and the experience of reading fiction. Subsequent essays undermine "sentimentalism" and focus on notions of realism in Hardy, the fantastic in Bram Stoker, and gender and religion in Olive Schreiner and George MacDonald; other contributions cover various aspects of Lewis Carroll, George Gissing, Thackeray, Trollope, and a host of other authors. Emphasizing the breadth and diversity of Victorian fiction, this collection will interest undergraduate and graduate students alike. G. A. Cevasco; St. John's University (NY)
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ForewordJohn Sutherland |
IntroductionAlice Jenkins and Juliet John |
Victorian Realist Prose and SentimentalityPhilip Davis |
Having the Whip-Hand in MiddlemarchDaniel Karlin |
Two Kinds of Clothing: Sartor Resartus and Great ExpectationsBernard Beatty |
Rereading G.W. Reynolds' The Mysteries of LondonTrefor Thomas |
The Godhead Regendered in Victorian Children's LiteratureJacqueline M. Labbe |
Alice : Reflections and RelativitiesMichael Irwin |
Place, Identity, and Born in ExileRalph Pite |
Stages of Sand and Blood: The Performance of Gendered Subjectivity in Olive Schreiner's Colonial AllegoriesScott McCracken |
Sexual Ethics in Fiction by Thomas Hardy and the New Woman WritersJil Larson |
Don Pickwick: Dickens and the Transformation of CervantesAngus Easson |
Using the Victorians: The Victorian Age in Contemporary FictionRobin Gilmour |
Women, Spiritualism, and Depth Psychology in Michegrave;le Roberts's Victorian NovelSusan Rowland |