The Victorian Art of Fiction: Nineteenth-Century Essays on the Novel

By Rohan Amanda Maitzen

The Victorian Art of Fictionpresents important Victorian statements on the form and function of fiction. The essays in this anthology address questions of genre, such as realism and sensationalism; questions of gender and authorship; questions of form, such as characterization, plot construction, and narration; and questions about the morality of fiction. The editor discusses where Victorian writing on the novel has been placed in accounts of the history of criticism and then suggests some reasons for reconsidering this conventional evaluation. Among the featured essayists and critics are John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, George Henry Lewes, Leslie Stephen, Anthony Trollope, and Robert Louis Stevenson; the classic essays include George Eliot's "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" and Henry James's "The Art of Fiction."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155111769X
• ISBN13: 9781551117690
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"