Reading The Nineteenth Century Novel

Author : Alison Case
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Nineteenth-century Novel written by Alison Case and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jane Austen's Persuasion to George Eliot's Middlemarch, the nineteenth century marks the rise of the novel as the dominant form of Western literature. This engaging text offers readers a close analysis of novels that are uniquely representative of the time period, including the work of Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Brontë sisters. An indispensable resource for students and teachers alike, this accessible guidebook: Places strong emphasis on the distinctive perspectives and discursive practices of narrators Provides in-depth analyses of individual passages Highlights the differences between the assumptions and experiences of the era in which the novels were written and those of the modern reader Draws key distinctions between novelists Explores significant theoretical approaches such as Foucauldian, New Historicist, Postcolonial, and feminist criticism Offers an overview of the social, economic, and political change that was influenced by the fiction of the time.

Author : Erika Wright
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821445634
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading for Health written by Erika Wright and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that prevention of illness and the preservation of well-being operate in fiction, both thematically and structurally, Wright offers a new approach to reading character and voice, order and temporality, setting and metaphor. As Wright reveals, while canonical works by Austen, Brontë, Dickens, Martineau, and Gaskell register the pervasiveness of a conventional “therapeutic” form of action and mode of reading, they demonstrate as well an equally powerful investment in the achievement and maintenance of “health”—what Wright refers to as a “hygienic” narrative—both in personal and domestic conduct and in social interaction of the individual within the community.

Author : Donna Harrington-Lueker
Publisher : UMass + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1613766319
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books for Idle Hours written by Donna Harrington-Lueker and published by UMass + ORM. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social status, book publishers sought new market opportunities, authors discovered a growing readership, and more readers indulged in lighter fare. Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Countering fears about the dangers of leisurely reading—especially for young women—publishers framed summer reading not as a disreputable habit but as a respectable pastime and welcome respite. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.

Author : Rachel Ablow
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472051075
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Feeling of Reading written by Rachel Ablow and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of criticism devoted to the problem of reading in Victorian literature

Author : Dennis Walder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136750053
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities written by Dennis Walder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary, Portrait of a Lady and The Woman in White. The book continues with a consideration of the novel at the fin de siecle, examining Dracula, The Awakening and Heart of Darkness. These fascinating essays illuminate the ways in which the conventions of realism were disrupted as much by anxieties surrounding colonialism, decadence, degeneration and the 'New Woman' as by those new ideas about human psychology which heralded the advent of psychoanalysis. The concepts which are crucial to the understanding of the literature and society of the nineteenth century are brilliantly explained and discussed in this essential volume.

Author : Stephen Regan
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415238281
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nineteenth-century Novel written by Stephen Regan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a valuable selection of nineteenth- century essays on the art of fiction. These contemporary essays are strategically placed alongside a selection of modern critical responses to twelve familiar nineteenth-century novels.

Author : Delia da Sousa Correa
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415238269
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nineteenth-century Novel written by Delia da Sousa Correa and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the scope and variety of the great novels of the 19th century. The essays in this collection trace the experimentation of 19th-century writers in advancing new modes of realist fiction.

Author : Andrew Blake
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349197688
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Victorian Fiction written by Andrew Blake and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the interrelationship of the Victorian novel with other forms of writings, arguing that the whole literary culture was concerned with the production of Victorian values, including novels, an active part in the compromise between aristocratic and middle class cultures in this period.

Author : Dennis Walder
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415238277
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nineteenth-century Novel written by Dennis Walder and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection show how the conventions of realism were transformed by new ideas about gender and race.

Author : G. R. Thompson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444344250
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the American Novel 1865 - 1914 written by G. R. Thompson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context Offers fresh analyses of key selected literary works Addresses a wide audience of academics and non-academics in clear, accessible prose Demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th century Explores the relationship between the intellectual and artistic output of the time and the turbulent socio-political context