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Victorian Literature / David Amigoni.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature : ECGLPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 2 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748625628
  • 9780748631087
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9008 22
LOC classification:
  • PR461 .A45 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction to Victorian Literature: Perspectives, Relationships, Contexts -- Chapter 1 Novel Sensations in Early and Mid-Victorian Fiction: From ‘Boz’ to Middlemarch -- Chapter 2 Theatrical Exchanges: Gendered Subjectivity and Identity Trials in the Dramatic Imagination -- Chapter 3 Poetry: Dramatic Monologues and Critical Dialogues -- Chapter 4 Victorians in Critical Time: Fin de Siècle and Sage-culture -- Conclusion: Neo-Victorianism, Postmodernism and Underground Cultures -- Student Resources -- Index
Summary: How were the genres of literature changed by new methods of serialization and publishing? How did a widespread culture of performance emerge in the period to shape as well as to be shaped by the novel and poetry? David Amigoni draws on the most recent critical approaches to the novel, Victorian melodrama and poetry to answer these and other questions. The work of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Carlyle and Mathew Arnold are explored in relation to ideas about fiction, journalism, drama, poetry, the New Woman, gothic, horror and the Victorian sage.Key FeaturesDetailed readings of key texts provide models of how to read criticallyDemonstrates the interaction between genres to help think through modes of artistic experimentation and innovation in the periodExamines Neo-Victorian fiction, a popular genre todayStudent resources include electronic and reference sources, further reading and an extensive glossary of key critical terms and historical issues
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction to Victorian Literature: Perspectives, Relationships, Contexts -- Chapter 1 Novel Sensations in Early and Mid-Victorian Fiction: From ‘Boz’ to Middlemarch -- Chapter 2 Theatrical Exchanges: Gendered Subjectivity and Identity Trials in the Dramatic Imagination -- Chapter 3 Poetry: Dramatic Monologues and Critical Dialogues -- Chapter 4 Victorians in Critical Time: Fin de Siècle and Sage-culture -- Conclusion: Neo-Victorianism, Postmodernism and Underground Cultures -- Student Resources -- Index

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How were the genres of literature changed by new methods of serialization and publishing? How did a widespread culture of performance emerge in the period to shape as well as to be shaped by the novel and poetry? David Amigoni draws on the most recent critical approaches to the novel, Victorian melodrama and poetry to answer these and other questions. The work of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Carlyle and Mathew Arnold are explored in relation to ideas about fiction, journalism, drama, poetry, the New Woman, gothic, horror and the Victorian sage.Key FeaturesDetailed readings of key texts provide models of how to read criticallyDemonstrates the interaction between genres to help think through modes of artistic experimentation and innovation in the periodExamines Neo-Victorian fiction, a popular genre todayStudent resources include electronic and reference sources, further reading and an extensive glossary of key critical terms and historical issues

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In English.

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