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Informationen zum Autor Lisa Rodensky is the Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor in the Humanities (2011-14) at Wellesley College. She is the author of The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel (2003) and the editor of Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu (2006). Her essays have appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture and Essays in Criticism. She is currently at work on an analysis of the critical vocabulary of the nineteenth-century novel review. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Beginnings. The Early Nineteenth-Century English Novel, 1820-1836 New Histories of English Literature and the Rise of the Novel, 1835-1859 Genre, Criticism and the Early Victorian Novel Publishing, Reading, Reviewing, Quoting, Censoring. Publishing the Victorian Novel The Victorian Novel and Its Readers The Victorian Novel and the Reviews The Victorian Novel and the OED The Novel and Censorship in Late-Victorian England The Victorian Novel Elsewhere. Victorian Novels in France Victorian Literature and Russian Culture: Translation, Reception, Influence, Affinity The Victorian Novel and America Colonial India and Victorian Storytelling Technologies: Communication, Travel, Visual The Victorian Novel and Communication Networks Technologies of Travel and the Victorian Novel Victorian Photography and the Novel The Middle. Novels of the 1860s Commerce, Work, Professions. Industrialism and the Victorian Novel The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Money: Max Weber, Silas Marner, and the Victorian Novel The Novel and the Professions Gentleman's Latin, Lady's Greek The Novel and Other Disciplines. The Victorian Novel and Science The Victorian Novel and Medicine Naturalizing the Mind in the Victorian Novel: Consciousness in Wilkie Collins's Poor Miss Finch and Thomas Hardy's Woodlanders Two Case Studies The Victorian Novel and the Law The Novel and Religion: Catholicism and Victorian Women's Novels The Victorian Novel and Horticulture The Victorian Novel and Theater Poetry and Criticism. Verse Versus the Novel Poetic Allusion and the Novel The Novelist as Critic Distinguishing the Victorian Novel. The Moral Scope of the English Bildungsroman Three Matters of Style Endings. The Novel, its Critics, and the University: A New Beginning? The Victorian Novel and the New Woman The Last Victorian Novel Slapstick Noir: The Secret Agent Works the Victorian Novel The Quest of the Silver Fleece, by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
