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The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Serialization.
D. Payne
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Description for The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Serialization.
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
An ambitious weave of ideological, literary, and commodity history, The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot sacralized Victorian modernity in two contradictory ways: by incarnating their moment as one of transcendent development, and by reenacting bloody rituals from a fading Protestant past. Both the magnitude and the brevity of their success make these works exemplary for our own era, caught between the archaic gods of traditional religion and the still-mysterious ones of market society.
An ambitious weave of ideological, literary, and commodity history, The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot sacralized Victorian modernity in two contradictory ways: by incarnating their moment as one of transcendent development, and by reenacting bloody rituals from a fading Protestant past. Both the magnitude and the brevity of their success make these works exemplary for our own era, caught between the archaic gods of traditional religion and the still-mysterious ones of market society.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349524679
SKU
V9781349524679
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About D. Payne
DAVID PAYNE received his PhD in 1998 from Columbia University, where he held a Whiting and other fellowships. He has taught at Columbia, Auburn and Georgia State universities
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