Victorian Literature

David Amigoni

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2011

Victorian Literature

David Amigoni

In the series Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748631087

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About this book

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 Features

Detailed readings of key texts provide models of how to read critically
Demonstrates the interaction between genres to help think through modes of artistic experimentation and innovation in the period
Examines Neo-Victorian fiction, a popular genre today
Student resources include electronic and reference sources, further reading and an extensive glossary of key critical terms and historical issues

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Series Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Chronology Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction to Victorian Literature: Perspectives, Relationships, Contexts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Novel Sensations in Early and Mid-Victorian Fiction: From ‘Boz’ to Middlemarch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 2 Theatrical Exchanges: Gendered Subjectivity and Identity Trials in the Dramatic Imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter 3 Poetry: Dramatic Monologues and Critical Dialogues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 4 Victorians in Critical Time: Fin de Siècle and Sage-culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Conclusion: Neo-Victorianism, Postmodernism and Underground Cultures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Student Resources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Illustrations
- Other: 2 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: March 23, 2011
ISBN: 9780748631087