Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon
. Ed(S): Downes, Daragh; Ferguson, Trish
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Hardback. Editor(s): Downes, Daragh; Ferguson, Trish. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 273 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 503.
This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted by scholars like John Sutherland and Franco Moretti, this energetically revisionist volume takes advantage of recent large-scale digitisation projects that allow unprecedented access to hitherto neglected literary texts and archives. Blending lively critical engagement with individual texts and close attention to often surprising trends in the production and reception of prose fiction across the Victorian era, this book will be of use to ... Read more
This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted by scholars like John Sutherland and Franco Moretti, this energetically revisionist volume takes advantage of recent large-scale digitisation projects that allow unprecedented access to hitherto neglected literary texts and archives. Blending lively critical engagement with individual texts and close attention to often surprising trends in the production and reception of prose fiction across the Victorian era, this book will be of use to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Number of Pages
273
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137518224
SKU
V9781137518224
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About . Ed(S): Downes, Daragh; Ferguson, Trish
Trish Ferguson is Senior Lecturer in the English Department of Liverpool Hope University, UK. She is the author of Thomas Hardy’s Legal Fictions (2013) and the editor of Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Daragh Downes is a Teaching Fellow in English and German at Trinity College Dublin. His chief English research interest is Charles Dickens and his ... Read more
Reviews for Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon
“The essays in Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon are consistently absorbing and, collectively, they make a strong and urgent case for the need to study the work of the other 99.5 percent.” (Grace Moore, Victorian Studies, Vol. 62 (1), 2019)