Companion Victorian Novel P - Brossura

Brantlinger, Brantlinger

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ISBN 10: 1405132914 ISBN 13: 9781405132916

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Riassunto

The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901.

• Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period.


• Explains issues such as Victorian religions, class structure, and Darwinism to those who are unfamiliar with them.


• Comprises original, accessible chapters written by renowned and emerging scholars in the field of Victorian studies.


• Ideal for students and researchers seeking up-to-the-minute coverage of contexts and trends, or as a starting point for a survey course.

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Recensione:

"These are wonderful essays [...] written by important scholars in the field. [...]Highly recommended." Choice

"another Blackwell reference work of prodigious proportions [...] by a galaxy of distinguished scholars [...] indispensable for any comprehensive reference library, destined indeed to be of permanent value and importance for many years to come." Reference Reviews

L'autore:

Patrick Brantlinger is Rudy Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author ofThe Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (1998),Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain 1694–1994 (1996), Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism 1830–1914 (1990), andCrusoe’s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (1990).

William B. Thesing is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He is the author ofThe London Muse: Victorian Poetic Responses to the City (1982) and the editor of five volumes in Gale’sDictionary of Literary Biography: Victorian Prose Writers before 1867 (1986),Victorian Prose Writers after 1867 (1987), Victorian Women Poets (1998),British Short-Fiction Writers, 1880–1914: The Realist Tradition (1994), andLate Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century British Women Poets (2001). He recently editedCaverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film (2000).

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• Editore: John Wiley & Sons
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1405132914
• ISBN 13: 9781405132916
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 528