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  • Victorian Metafiction

    by Tabitha Sparks ...
    Series series Victorian Literature and Culture Series
    Critics agree in the abstract that "metafiction" refers to any novel that draws attention to its own fictional construction, but metafiction has been largely associated with the postmodern era. In this innovative new book Tabitha Sparks identifies a sustained pattern of metafiction in the Victorian novel that illuminates the art and intentions of its female practitioners.From the mid-nineteenth ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Doctor in the Victorian Novel

    Family Practices

    by Tabitha Sparks ...
    With the character of the doctor as her subject, Tabitha Sparks follows the decline of the marriage plot in the Victorian novel. As Victorians came to terms with the scientific revolution in medicine of the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the novel's progressive distance from the conventions of the marriage plot can be indexed through a rising identification of the doctor with scientific ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture

    Edited by Louise Penner, Tabitha Sparks ...
    Series Book 87 - Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
    This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Charles Dickens's involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical portrayal of drug addiction, plus a whole section devoted to the representation of medicine in crime fiction. This is an interdisciplinary study involving ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Lisa Rodensky ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and science, the Victorian Bildungroman) as well as essays on topics often overlooked ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Women and Romance

    The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

    by Laurie Langbauer ...
    Series series Reading Women Writing
    According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction

    Edited by Andrew Mangham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the ... Read more

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  • Precocious Children and Childish Adults

    Age Inversion in Victorian Literature

    by Claudia Nelson ...
    Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period.Though far from ubiquitous, the terms “child-woman,” “child-man,” and “old-fashioned child” appear often enough in Victorian ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Pleasures of Memory

    Learning to Read with Charles Dickens

    by Sarah Winter ...
    How did this nineteenth-century novelist change the way we think? "A fine contribution to the sociology of literature . . . Highly recommended." — ChoiceWhat are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Looking at literary history in relation to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The ... Read more

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  • Rewriting the Victorians

    Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender

    Edited by Linda M. Shires ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It analyzes the struggle for ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

    Edited by John O. Jordan ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction. The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters ... Read more

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