Reading the Nineteenth-century Novel Austen to Eliot

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 Brontë 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

Harry E. Shaw has taught at Cornell University since 1978, where he has served as Director of the John S. Knight Writing Program, Chair of the Department of English, and Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Shaw's works include Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot (2004) and The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors (1983). He edited Critical Essays on Sir Walter Scott: The Waverley Novels (1996).

Alison Case has taught at Williams College since 1991. She authored Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel (1999).