The Victorian Novel
分類: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),History & Criticism(历史与批判),European,
基本信息平装正文语种:英语ISBN:0631226281条形码:9780631226284商品尺寸:22.5 x 16.9 x 2.1 cm商品重量:395 gASIN:0631226281商品描述This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts. Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing. Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" (1847) and Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684). Also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.