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Volume 4: The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940
Patrick Parrinder, Andrzej Gasiorek
£95.00
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The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day
Patrick Parrinder
£20.00
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Volume I: Britain and Ireland 1880-1955
Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker
£122.00
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Volume 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880
Edited by John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor
592 pages
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Eight black-and-white halftones and two tables
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246x171mm
978-0-19-956061-5
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Hardback
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03 November 2011
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- Provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the development of the novel in English in the nineteenth century available in one volume
- Individual chapters devoted to Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and the Brontës
- Cultural and intellectual contexts - religion, psychology, science, the state, and empire - are explored
- Sub-genres and narrative forms, including short fiction, realism, the Bildungsroman, the historical novel, and Gothic fictions are discussed
- Challenges conventional histories of the nineteenth-century novel by starting in the 1820s rather than the 1830s
The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies.
Volume 3, The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1800 charts one
of the most significant and exciting periods in the history of the genre. Beginning with the decade in which Scott's work helped inaugurate the three-volume novel, and in which many narrative genres, conventions, and preoccupations associated with Victorian fiction first emerged, it traces how these forms developed and changed in the mid nineteenth century, as the novel became established at the centre of British national culture. The volume includes sections on book history, on major authors, and on the varieties of fiction and range of narrative modes during the period. It also features essays on theories of the novel, and on the novel's relationship to other aesthetic forms. Volume 3 also emphasizes the wider cultural role and significance of the novel during the period, including its
impact on ideas of place and nation, as well as its intervention in political, scientific, and intellectual contexts.Readership: Students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature
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Edited by John Kucich, Professor of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Jenny Bourne Taylor, Professor of English, University of Sussex John Kucich is a Professor of English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has written numerous books and essays on nineteenth-century literature and culture. His publications include Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (Georgia, 1981), Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens (California, 1987), The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (Cornell, 1994), and Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class (Princeton, 2007). He
has also edited, with Dianne F. Sadoff, Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (Minnesota, 2000).
Jenny Bourne Taylor is a Professor of English at the University of Sussex. She has written widely on nineteenth-century literature and culture. Her publication include (with Sally Shuttleworth) Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts (Clarendon, 1998), and ed., with Margot Finn and Michael Lobban Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Law, Literature and History (Palgrave, 2010).
Contributors:
Rachel Ablow, University at Buffalo
Nancy Armstrong, Duke University
Ella Dzelzainis, Newcastle University
Dinah Birch, University of Liverpool
John Bowen, York University
James Buzzard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Margaret Cohen, Stanford University
Nicholas Dames, Columbia University
Michael Davis, University of the West of England, Bristol
Susan Fraiman, University of Virginia
Elaine Freedgood, New York University
Lauren Goodlad, University of Illinois
Lucy Hartley, University of Michigan
Cora Kaplan, Queen
Mary, University of London
John Kucich, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
David Kurnick, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Graham Law, Waseda University, Japan
Deborah Lutz, Long Island University, C. W. Post
Richard Maxwell, Yale University
Josephine McDonagh, King's College London
Claudia Nelson, Texas A & M University
Lyn Pykett, Aberystwyth University
Dianne F. Sadoff, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Richard Salmon, University of Leeds
Cannon Schmitt, University of Toronto
Joanne Shattock, University of Leicester
Jenny Bourne Taylor, University of Sussex
Norman Vance, University of Sussex
Heather Worthington, Cardiff University
Deborah Wynne, University of Chester
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"remarkably informative and stimulating." - Simon Dentith, Review of English Studies "The volume's coverage is magisterial ... the essays are jewels of compression and clarity." - Trev Broughton, Times Literary Supplement "Essential" - Choice
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Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
General Editor's Preface
Introduction
Editorial Note
Note on British Currency before Decimalization
Part I: Novelists, Readers, and the Fiction Industry
1: Joanne Shattock: The Publishing Industry
2: Deborah Wynne: Readers and Reading Practices
3: Graham Law: The Professionalization of Authorship
Part II: Varieties and Genres
4: Richard Maxwell: The Historical Novel
5: Deborah Lutz: Gothic Fictions in the Nineteenth Century
6: Richard Salmon: The English Bildungsroman
7: Dianne F. Sadoff: The Silver Fork Novel
8: Heather Worthington: The Newgate Novel
9: Nancy Armstrong: The Sensation Novel
10: Claudia Nelson: Children's Fiction
11: Susan Fraiman: The Domestic Novel
Part III: Major Authors in Context
12: Lyn Pykett: Charles Dickens: The Novelist as Public Figure
13: John Bowen: The Brontës and the Transformations of Romanticism
14: Dinah Birch: George Eliot and Intellectual Culture
Part IV: Narrative Structures and Strategies
15: Jenny Bourne Taylor: Short Fiction and the Novel
16: Jenny Bourne Taylor and John Kucich: Multiple Narrators and Multiple Plots
17: Rachel Ablow: Addressing the Reader: The Autobiographical Voice
18: Nicholas Dames: Realism and Theories of the Novel
19: David Kurnick: Theatricality and the Novel
20: Lucy Hartley: Aesthetic Theories
Part V: The Nation and its Boundaries
21: John Kucich: Modernization and the Organic Society
22: Josephine McDonagh: Place, Region, and Migration
23: Elaine Freedgood: The Novel and Empire
24: James Buzzard: Nationalism and National Identities
25: Margaret Cohen: International Influences
Part VI: Contemporary Contexts
26: Ella Dzelzanis: Radicalism and Reform
27: Lauren Goodlad: Parliament and the State
28: Cannon Schmitt: Science and the Novel
29: Norman Vance: Religion and the Novel
30: Michael Davis: Psychology and the Idea of Character
31: Cora Kaplan: Gender Identities and Relationships
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