The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader

By Athena Dixon

Book Overview

The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader provides a comprehensive selection of contemporary and modern essays on the most important novels of the period. By bringing together a range of material written across two centuries, it offers an insight into the changing reception of realist fiction and a discussion of how complex debates about the meaning and function of realism informed and shaped the kind of fiction that was written in the nineteenth century. The novels discussed are: Northanger Abbey, Jane Eyre, Dombey and Son, Middlemarch, Far From the Madding Crowd, Germinal, Madame Bovary, The Woman in White, The Portrait of a Lady, The Awakening, Dracula, Heart of Darkness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415238285
• ISBN13: 9780415238281
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"