Reading the Nineteenth-century Novel: Austen to Eliot (Reading the Novel) - Hardcover

Case, Alison; Shaw, Harry E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631231498 ISBN 13: 9780631231493

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

This text offers students and teachers a close analysis of nineteenth-century novels by ten major authors: Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Bronte sisters. * Examines a wide range of nineteenth-century novels - Persuasion, Middlemarch, The Heart of Midlothian, Vanity Fair, Mary Barton, Bleak House, The Warden, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre * Explores significant theoretical approaches such as Foucauldian, Postcolonial, Bakhtinian, and feminist criticism * Employs an "appreciative" model of criticism, sparking a renewed interest in engaging with Victorian aesthetics on its own terms * Offers an overview of the social, economic, and political change that influenced the fiction of the time

About this title

Review:

"Case and Shaw can show students how to read attentively." (English, February 2010)

"Especially beneficial for the student or teacher of a course in the Victorian novel, this book offers short analytical synopses with easy-to-follow headings ... useful for a quick reference ... .The authors negate the image of the Victorian as 'stuffy, hidebound, and obsessed with propriety' ... .But what perhaps is most interesting is the focus on narrative voice." (English Literature in Transition 1820-1920)

From the Back Cover:

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 Brontė 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, Postcolonial, Bakhtinian and feminist criticism
  
• Offers an overview of the social, economic, and political change that influenced the fiction of the time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0631231498
• ISBN 13: 9780631231493
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232