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Informationen zum Autor Patrick Brantlinger is Rudy Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (1998), Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain 1694-1994 (1996), Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism 1830-1914 (1990), and Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (1990). William B. Thesing is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He is the author of The London Muse: Victorian Poetic Responses to the City (1982) and the editor of five volumes in Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography: Victorian Prose Writers before 1867 (1986), Victorian Prose Writers after 1867 (1987), Victorian Women Poets (1998), British Short-Fiction Writers, 1880-1914: The Realist Tradition (1994), and Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century British Women Poets (2001). He recently edited Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film (2000). Klappentext It is estimated that between 1837 and 1901 some 60,000 novels were published in Britain. This Companion introduces readers to the historical contexts in which this vast range of fiction was produced and to the critical debates that have raged about it ever since. The Companion comprises twenty-six original, accessible chapters, written by renowned and emerging scholars in the field of Victorian studies. The first section provides overviews of key historical contexts, such as religion, class, gender, and the publishing world. The second part surveys the various genres and subgenres of the Victorian novel. The third deals with Victorian, modern, and postmodern theories of the novel and looks at how Victorian novels and novelists were received, both now and then. A detailed and convenient index enables cross-referencing and study of a broad spectrum of authors, novels, themes, and controversies, while informed bibliographies following each chapter contain many helpful recommendations for further reading. Zusammenfassung The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. * Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments viii The Contributors ix Introduction 1 Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing PART I Historical Contexts and Cultural Issues 9 1 The Publishing World 11 Kelly J. Mays 2 Education, Literacy, and the Victorian Reader 31 Jonathan Rose 3 Money, the Economy, and Social Class 48 Regenia Gagnier 4 Victorian Psychology 67 Athena Vrettos 5 Empire, Race, and the Victorian Novel 84 Deirdre David 6 The Victorian Novel and Religion 101 Hilary Fraser 7 Scientific Ascendancy 119 John Kucich 8 Technology and Information: Accelerating Developments 137 Christopher Keep 9 Laws, the Legal World, and Politics 155 John R. Reed 10 Gender Politics and Women's Rights 172 Hilary M. Schor 11 The Other Arts: Victorian Visual Culture 189 Jeffrey Spear 12 Imagined Audiences: The Novelist and the Stage 207 Renata Kobetts Miller PART II Forms of the Victorian Novel 225 13 Newgate Novel to Detective Fiction 227 F. S. Schwarzbach 14 The Historical Novel 244 John Bowen 15 The Sensation Novel 260 Winifred Hughes 16 The Bildungsroman 279 John R. Maynard 17 The Gothic Romanc...
