
Reading the Victorian Novel
Annette Federico(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 19. February 2024
Book
Hardback
126 pages
978-1-032-48308-5 (ISBN)
Description
Reading the Victorian Novel is a clear and engaging introduction to Victorian fiction.
In this book, Annette Federico invites readers to turn their attention to the bursting imaginations and formal inventiveness of Victorian novelists themselves. Five conventions prevailed in the building of a Victorian novel: serialisation, narration, plotting, description, and characterization. Each chapter is rich in examples of these practices and attentive to the historical and cultural contexts that shaped them, as well as to the responses and judgments of Victorian readers and contemporary scholars. Federico keeps the focus on the writer's choices and the reader's experience--on the meeting of minds and imaginations against the backdrop of history.
Reading the Victorian Novel is an appreciative and discerning guide for anyone with an interest in the resonant and vibrant worlds of nineteenth-century fiction.
In this book, Annette Federico invites readers to turn their attention to the bursting imaginations and formal inventiveness of Victorian novelists themselves. Five conventions prevailed in the building of a Victorian novel: serialisation, narration, plotting, description, and characterization. Each chapter is rich in examples of these practices and attentive to the historical and cultural contexts that shaped them, as well as to the responses and judgments of Victorian readers and contemporary scholars. Federico keeps the focus on the writer's choices and the reader's experience--on the meeting of minds and imaginations against the backdrop of history.
Reading the Victorian Novel is an appreciative and discerning guide for anyone with an interest in the resonant and vibrant worlds of nineteenth-century fiction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core
Illustrations
4 s/w Abbildungen, 4 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
4 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
373 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-48308-5 (9781032483085)
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Person
Annette Federico is Professor of English at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. She is the author of five books including Engagements with Close Reading (Routledge, 2016) and Charles Dickens: But for you, dear stranger (2022). She is also the editor of two collections of critical essays, Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years (2009) and My Victorian Novel: Critical Essays in the Personal Voice (2020).
Content
1. Seriality 2. Plots 3. Picturing 4. People 5. The Storytellers