A Companion to the Victorian Novel - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 063122064X ISBN 13: 9780631220640

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2002

Riassunto

A guide to British fiction published between 1837 and 1901 covers such topics as the forms of Victorian novels, cultural issues in their historical contexts, and the reception of the novels and novelists in modern society.

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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: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 063122064X
• ISBN 13: 9780631220640
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 544
• Redattore: Brantlinger Patrick, Thesing William B.