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Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Alison Case
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Description for Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Hardcover. 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 Bronte sisters. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
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 Bronte sisters. * 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, ... Read more
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 Bronte sisters. * 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Reading the Novel
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Chicester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631231493
SKU
V9780631231493
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Ref
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About Alison Case
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel
"Case and Shaw can show students how to read attentively." (English, February 2010) "Especially beneficial for the student or teacher of a course in the Victorian novel, this book offers short analytical synopses with easy-to-follow headings ... useful for a quick reference ... .The authors negate the image of the Victorian as 'stuffy, hidebound, and obsessed with ... Read more