The Nineteenth-century Novel: A Critical ReaderMost undergraduate literature courses begin with a compulsory survey course on the novel. The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader fills a real gap in the market as no other book provides such a comprehensive selection of contemporary and modern essays and reviews on the most important novels of the period. By bringing together a range of material written across two centuries, it offers an insight into the changing reception of realist fiction and a discussion of how complex debates about the meaning and function of realism informed and shaped the kind of fiction that was written in the nineteenth century. The novels discussed are: Northanger Abbey, Jane Eyre, Dombey and Son, Middlemarch, Far From the Madding Crowd, Germinal, Madame Bovary, The Woman in White, The Portrait of a Lady, The Awakening, Dracula, Heart of Darkness. |
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Contents
Clara Reeve The Progress of Romance | 13 |
Walter Scott On Romance | 22 |
Recent German Fiction | 36 |
Henry Mansel Sensation Novels | 44 |
E S Dallas The Gay Science | 54 |
Walter Besant The Art of Fiction | 61 |
Henry James The Art of Fiction | 68 |
Henry James Novels by Eliot Hardy and Flaubert | 79 |
Robert Louis Stevenson A Humble Remonstrance | 93 |
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| Title | The Nineteenth-century Novel: A Critical Reader Volume 3 of Nineteenth-century novel |
| Editor | Stephen Regan |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0415238285, 9780415238281 |
| Length | 573 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory |
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