The Victorian novel in context / Grace Moore.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half title; Series page; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE Contexts; 1 Victorianism; A reforming age; The city; Poverty; Chartism; Money; Education; Religious crises; Evolution and faith; The angel in the house; The fin de siècle; The New Woman; The Dandy and homosexuality at the fin de siècle; Atavism and degeneration; The Whitechapel murders and the Nemesis of Neglect; The Empire; 2 Literary context; The form of the novel; The Bildungsroman; Realism; The problem of ending; The fl ight from the real; Review; Reading

ResearchPART TWO Texts; 3 Readings of key texts; Oliver Twist, the unprotected child; Gaskell, the working poor and the lady visitor; Jane Eyre and genteel poverty; Eliot, Hardy and rural poverty; The Northern manufacturing city; London; Education; The Mill on the Floss; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Dracula; The representation of women; Women, prostitution and reputation; Reputation; Space and women in the public sphere; Masculinity; The gentleman; Dracula and wealth; The colonies; Endings and generic subversions; Reading; Research; Jane Eyre; North and South; The Mill on the Floss

The Mayor of CasterbridgeDracula; Extended Research Topic; PART THREE Wider contexts; 4 Critical context ; Marxist criticism and the novel; Jane Eyre as an imperialist text: Gayatri Spivak talks back to Gilbert and Gubar; Victorian sexuality and surveillance; Darwin and the novel: Gillian Beer; Mary Poovey, feminism and interdisciplinarity; Ecocriticism and the novel; New directions for Victorian studies; Review; Research; 5 Afterlives and adaptations; The decline of the Victorians; The Victorians around us; Neo-Victorianism and the classic novel; The vampire's afterlives

Influential reworkingsHauntings; Reading; Research; Select webography; Bibliography; Index

This book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts including Dickens''s Oliver Twist, Gaskell''s North and South and Hardy''s The Mayor of Casterbridge. The Victorian Novel in Context examines the changing readership resulting from the growth of mass literacy and the effect that this had on the form of the novel. Taking texts from the ea.

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