Reading the Nineteenth-century Novel: Austen to Eliot (Reading the Novel) - Hardcover

Case, Alison; Shaw, Harry E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631231498 ISBN 13: 9780631231493

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

This text offers students and teachers a close analysis of nineteenth-century novels by ten major authors: Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Brontė sisters.

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• Examines a wide range of nineteenth-century novels - Persuasion, Middlemarch, The Heart of Midlothian, Vanity Fair, Mary Barton, Bleak House, The Warden, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre
  
• Explores significant theoretical approaches such as Foucauldian, Postcolonial, Bakhtinian, and feminist criticism
  
• Employs an “appreciative” model of criticism, sparking a renewed interest in engaging with Victorian aesthetics on its own terms
  
• Offers an overview of the social, economic, and political change that influenced the fiction of the time

About this title

From the Back Cover:

From Jane Austen’s Persuasion to George Eliot’s Middlemarch, the nineteenth century marks the rise of the novel as the dominant form of Western literature. This engaging text offers readers a close analysis of novels that are uniquely representative of the time period, including the work of Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Brontė sisters.

An indispensable resource for students and teachers alike, this accessible guidebook:

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• Places strong emphasis on the distinctive perspectives and discursive practices of narrators
  
• Provides in-depth analyses of individual passages
  
• Highlights the differences between the assumptions and experiences of the era in which the novels were written and those of the modern reader
  
• Draws key distinctions between novelists
  
• Explores significant theoretical approaches such as Foucauldian, Postcolonial, Bakhtinian and feminist criticism
  
• Offers an overview of the social, economic, and political change that influenced the fiction of the time.

About the Author:

Alison Case has taught at Williams College since 1991. She authored Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel (1999).

Harry E. Shaw has taught at Cornell University since 1978, where he has served as Director of the John S. Knight Writing Program, Chair of the Department of English, and Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Shaw’s works include Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot (1999, paperback edition 2004) and The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors (1983). He edited Critical Essays on Sir Walter Scott: The Waverley Novels (1996).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0631231498
• ISBN 13: 9780631231493
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232