The Victorian novel in context /

This book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on po...

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Main Author: Moore, Grace, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2012.
Series:Texts and contexts.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Cover; Half title; Series page; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE Contexts; 1 Victorianism; A reforming age; The city; Poverty; Chartism; Money; Education; Religious crises; Evolution and faith; The angel in the house; The fin de siècle; The New Woman; The Dandy and homosexuality at the fin de siècle; Atavism and degeneration; The Whitechapel murders and the Nemesis of Neglect; The Empire; 2 Literary context; The form of the novel; The Bildungsroman; Realism; The problem of ending; The fl ight from the real; Review; Reading 
505 8 |a ResearchPART TWO Texts; 3 Readings of key texts; Oliver Twist, the unprotected child; Gaskell, the working poor and the lady visitor; Jane Eyre and genteel poverty; Eliot, Hardy and rural poverty; The Northern manufacturing city; London; Education; The Mill on the Floss; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Dracula; The representation of women; Women, prostitution and reputation; Reputation; Space and women in the public sphere; Masculinity; The gentleman; Dracula and wealth; The colonies; Endings and generic subversions; Reading; Research; Jane Eyre; North and South; The Mill on the Floss 
505 8 |a The Mayor of CasterbridgeDracula; Extended Research Topic; PART THREE Wider contexts; 4 Critical context ; Marxist criticism and the novel; Jane Eyre as an imperialist text: Gayatri Spivak talks back to Gilbert and Gubar; Victorian sexuality and surveillance; Darwin and the novel: Gillian Beer; Mary Poovey, feminism and interdisciplinarity; Ecocriticism and the novel; New directions for Victorian studies; Review; Research; 5 Afterlives and adaptations; The decline of the Victorians; The Victorians around us; Neo-Victorianism and the classic novel; The vampire's afterlives 
505 8 |a Influential reworkingsHauntings; Reading; Research; Select webography; Bibliography; Index 
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