James The Victorian Novel

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5228-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature

This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing theVictorian novel.
* Provides time maps and overviews of historical and socialcontexts.
* Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel andhistorical, religious and bibliographic writing.
* Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors,including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and RobertLouis Stevenson.
* Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among themCharlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) and BramStoker's Dracula (1897), as well as key presences,such as John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (Pt 1,1676, Pt 2, 1684).
* Also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation,the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, Louis

Über Autor(innen)

Louis James's writing reflects his interests in Victorian and postcolonial literature, and his main publications include Fiction for the Working Man 1830-50 (1963), Print and the People (1976) and Caribbean Writing in English (1999). After a much-travelled academic life he now lives with his wife and two cats near the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is an Emeritus Professor of English.