Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900

Edited by: Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger

Volume 9 in the series Handbooks of English and American Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110376715

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About this book

Part I of this authoritative handbook offers systematic essays, which deal with major historical, social, philosophical, political, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the English novel between 1830 and 1900. The essays offer a wide scope of aspects such as the Industrial Revolution, religion and secularisation, science, technology, medicine, evolution or the increasing mediatisation of the lifeworld. Part II, then, leads through the work of more than 25 eminent Victorian novelists. Each of these chapters provides both historical and biographical contextualisation, overview, close reading and analysis. They also encourage further research as they look upon the work of the respective authors at issue from the perspectives of cultural and literary theory.

Author / Editor information

Martin Middeke, University of Augsburg, Germany; Monika Pietrzak-Franger, University of Vienna, Austria.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
0. Metamorphoses in English Culture and the Novel, 1830–1900: An Introduction Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Systematic Questions
1. Science and the Victorian Novel Phillip Mallett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Remediating Nineteenth-Century Narrative Dianne F. Sadoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3. God on the Wane? The Victorian Novel and Religion Miriam Elizabeth Burstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
4. Genres and Poetology: The Novel and the Way towards Aesthetic Self-Consciousness Saverio Tomaiuolo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5. The Art of Novel Writing: Victorian Theories Anna Maria Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
6. Victorian Gender Relations and the Novel Monika Pietrzak-Franger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7. Empire – Economy – Materiality Nora Pleßke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Part II: Close Readings
8. Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834) Natalie Roxburgh and Felix Sprang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
9. Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) Nils Clausson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
10. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) Adina Sorian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
11. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847) Simon Marsden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
12. Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey (1847) Joanna Rostek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
13. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847–1848) Linda M. Shires Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
14. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848) Ellen Grünkemeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
15. Charles Kingsley, Yeast: A Problem (1851) Timothy L. Carens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
16. Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853) Norbert Lennartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
17. Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (1858) J.Hillis Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
18. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) Silvia Mergenthal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
19. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Carolyn Sigler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
20. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868) Nadine Böhm-Schnitker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
21. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (1871) David Seed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
22. George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871–1872; 1874) Ute Berns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
23. George Meredith, The Egoist (1879) Rebecca N. Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
24. Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean (1885) Julia Straub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
25. Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) Doris Feldmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
26. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) Susanne Bach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
27. Sarah Grand, The Heavenly Twins (1893) Monika Pietrzak-Franger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
28. George Moore, Esther Waters (1894) Stephan Karschay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
29. Mona Caird, The Daughters of Danaus (1894) Anne-Julia Zwierlein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
30. Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895) Martin Middeke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	529
31. H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) Eckart Voigts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	547
32. Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) Susanne Scholz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	565
33. Henry James, What Maisie Knew (1897) Timo Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	581
34. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900) Jakob Lothe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	597
35. Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1900–1901) U.C. Knoepflmacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	613
36. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903) Ruth Parkin-Gounelas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	629
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	645
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	659
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	675

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 676
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 25
Keywords: English novel; Victorian novel; Literary History

eBook

Published: May 5, 2020
ISBN: 9783110376715

Hardcover

Published: May 5, 2020
ISBN: 9783110376418