Part I of this handbook offers systematic essays, which deal with major historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the English novel (18301900). Part II leads through the work of more than 25 eminent Victorian novelists. Each chapter provides historical/biographical contextualisation, overview, close reading and analysis and encourages further research by looking upon the authors work from the perspectives of cultural and literary theory.
Author(s): Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Martin Middeke
Series: (Handbooks of English and American Studies, 9)
Edition: 1
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 676
Tags: Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Fiction,
Editors’ Preface
Contents
0. Metamorphoses in English Culture and the Novel, 1830–1900: An Introduction
Part I: Systematic Questions
1. Science and the Victorian Novel
2. Remediating Nineteenth-Century Narrative
3. God on the Wane? The Victorian Novel and Religion
4. Genres and Poetology: The Novel and the Way towards Aesthetic Self-Consciousness
5. The Art of Novel Writing: Victorian Theories
6. Victorian Gender Relations and the Novel
7. Empire – Economy – Materiality
Part II: Close Readings
8. Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
9. Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845)
10. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
11. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
12. Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey (1847)
13. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
14. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848)
15. Charles Kingsley, Yeast: A Problem (1851)
16. Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853)
17. Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (1858)
18. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862)
19. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
20. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868)
21. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (1871)
22. George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871–1872; 1874)
23. George Meredith, The Egoist (1879)
24. Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean (1885)
25. Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
26. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
27. Sarah Grand, The Heavenly Twins (1893)
28. George Moore, Esther Waters (1894)
29. Mona Caird, The Daughters of Danaus (1894)
30. Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895)
31. H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
32. Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
33. Henry James, What Maisie Knew (1897)
34. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
35. Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1900–1901)
36. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
List of Contributors
