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- ISBN: 9780631231431 | 0631231439
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/22/2008
This text offers students and teachers a close analysis of nineteenth-century novels by ten major authors: Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Brontė sisters. Offers a close analysis of major-nineteenth century novels including Persuasion, Middlemarch, The Heart of Midlothian, Vanity Fair, Mary Barton, Bleak House, The Warden, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre Explores significant theoretical approaches, including Foucauldian, New Historicist, and Post-colonial criticism Employs an "appreciative" model of criticism, sparking a renewed interest in engaging with Victorian aesthetics on its own terms Provides an overview of the social, economic, and political change influenced by fiction of the time period