The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century

This book shows how Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot sacralized Victorian modernity in two contradictory ways: by incarnating their moment as one of transcendent development, and by reenacting bloody rituals from a fading Protestant past. Both the magnitude and the brevity of their success make these works exemplary for our own era, caught between the archaic gods of traditional religion and the still-mysterious ones of market society.

David Payne has taught at Columbia, Auburn and Georgia State Universities.

List of Illustrations	viii
Preface and Acknowledgements	ix
List of Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(19)
1 The Cockney and the Prostitute: Dickens from Sketches by Boz to Oliver Twist	20	(24)
2 The Pathos of Distance: Thackeray, Serialization, and Vanity Fair	44	(25)
3 Dickens Breaks Out: the Public Readings and Little Dorrit	69	(26)
4 A Dance of Indecision: George Eliot's Shorter Fiction	95	(27)
5 The Production of Belief: the Serial, Middlemarch	122	(23)
Epilogue: The Sacred Monster: the Serial Novelists' Reenchantment	145	(8)
Notes	153	(30)
Bibliography	183	(19)
Index	202

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