Rereading Victorian Fiction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333973852 ISBN 13: 9780333973851

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

This book offers a collection of essays on novels and short stories from the beginning of Victoria's reign through to the end of the nineteenth 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, as well as by studies of twentieth-century novelists' responses to Victorian fiction. Overall this collection emphasizes the breadth and diversity of Victorian prose fiction and will be of interest to students and specialists alike.

About this title

Review:

'The confident pluralism of this collection presents Victorian fiction to a new generation of readers.' - Dinah Birch, Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

ALICE JENKINS is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is the co-editor (with Juliet John) of Rethinking Victorian Culture (forthcoming). She has published articles on literature and the history of science and is completing a study of spatial discourse in early nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing.

JULIET JOHN is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Salford. She is author of Dicken's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture, editor of Cult Criminals: the Newgate Novels and co-editor (with Alice Jenkins) of Rethinking Victorian Culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0333973852
• ISBN 13: 9780333973851
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Jenkins A., John J.