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Informationen zum Autor Amanpal Garcha is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University. Klappentext This book shows how the literary sketch influenced the careers of William Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell. Zusammenfassung In this unusual study of a previously neglected literary form! Amanpal Garcha shows how the literary sketch influenced the careers of William Thackeray! Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell! transformed the marketplace for fiction! and led to the development of some of the Victorian novel's key formal and ideological elements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction: From Sketch to Novel: 1. Modern change and aestheticized stasis in the early nineteenth century; 2. Plotless styles in novel history and theory; Part II. Journalism, Modernity, and Stasis in The Paris Sketch Book and The History of Pendennis: 3. Capitalist excess, gentlemanly atavism: Thackeray's devils in his early sketches; 4. Pendennis's stasis and Thackeray's professional sensibilities; Part III. Styles of Stillness and Motion: Charles Dickens's Lower-Class Descriptions: 5. Sketches by Boz: narrative form and market culture; 6. Narrating stasis, describing reform: Nicholas Nickleby; Part IV. Elizabeth Gaskell's Individualism, from 'Sketches among the Poor' to Cranford: 7. 'Leave me, leave me to repose': Gaskell's descriptive individualism; 8. Cranford's individualistic style; Conclusion: 'nothing democratic': intelligence, abstraction, and avant-garde plotlessness; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
