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This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. This book: provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts; considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing; features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson; offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Bront's "Jane Eyre" (1847) and Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684); and, also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Victorian Novel
• Author: Louis James
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780631226277
• ISBN: 0631226273
• ID: 04899327
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 572 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 164 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. November 2005

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