How to Read the Victorian Novel

by George Lewis Levine

Book Overview

How to Read the Victorian Novel provides a unique introduction to the genre. Using examples from the classics, like The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, The Woman in White , and Middlemarch , it demonstrates just how unfamiliar their familiarity is. The book attempts to break free of the sense that the Victorian novel is somehow old fashioned, moralizing, and formally careless by emphasizing the complexity, difficulty, and rare pleasures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405130555
• ISBN13: 9781405130554
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"