The Victorian Novel
, by O'Gorman, Francis
- ISBN: 9780631227045 | 0631227040
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/27/2002
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Francis O'Gorman is Lecturer in Victorian Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds. He has written widely on the Victorian period, including the books John Ruskin (1999) and Late Ruskin: New Contexts (2001), and co-edited collections on Margaret Oliphant (1999), Ruskin and Gender (2002), and The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition (2003). He has also written articles and book chapters on Ruskin, Tyndall, Robert Browning, Tennyson, Michael Field, and Victorian masculinities. He is currently working on an annotated anthology of Victorian poetry (Blackwell, forthcoming), and writing more on Ruskin.
| Acknowledgements | |
| Textual Note | |
| Introduction | |
| Early Criticism of the Victorian Novel from James:Oliphant to David Cecil | |
| The State of the Novel in 1900 | |
| University Study of Victorian Literature | |
| Principles of Literary History | |
| The Approach of George Saintsbury | |
| Extract from Saintsbury''s The English Novel (1913) | |
| E.M. Forster and Critiquing Literary History | |
| The Modernist Construction of Victorian Fiction | |
| David Cecil''s View of Victorian Novels and Culture | |
| Extract from Cecil''s Early Victorian Novelists (1934) | |
| Further Reading | |
| F.R. Leavis and The Great Tradition:Outline of the Chapter | |
| Leavis''s Influence | |
| The Principles of Leavis'' Criticism | |
| The Idea of Tradition | |
| 1980s'' Reactions to the Politics of Leavis'' Criticism | |
| The Principles of Leavis'' The Great Tradition (1948) | |
| Its Treatment of Dickens and Leavis'' Later Views on Him | |
| Extract from The Great Tradition | |
| Further Reading | |
| Feminism and the Victorian Novel in the 1970s:The Influence of 1970s'' Feminism | |
| Outline of the Chapter | |
| Ellen Moers'' Literary Women (1976) | |
| Elaine Showalter and the Female Tradition | |
| Discussion of Showalter''s A Literature of Their Own (1977) | |
| 1980s'' Response to Showalter | |
| Extract from A Literature of Their Own | |
| Significance of Gilbert and Gubar''s | |
| The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) | |
| The Madwoman Discussed | |
| Gilbertand Gubar''s Appraisal of The Madwoman | |
| Extract from The Madwoman | |
| Further Reading | |
| Realism:Preliminary Questions | |
| Outline of the Chapter | |
| Histories of Realism | |
| Ian Watt''s The Rise of the Novel (1957) Discussed | |
| The Cartesian Certainties of Realism | |
| Watt Critiqued | |
| Alternative Histories of Realism | |
| Epistemology of Realism | |
| Ioan Williams and Realism''s Certainties | |
| George Levine''s View of Realism and Self-Consciousness | |
| Extract from Levine''s The Realist Imagination (1981) | |
| Psychological Coherence in Realism: Bersani | |
| A Future for Astyanax (1976) | |
| Politics of Classic Realism and Coherence Criticized in 1980s | |
| Extract from Belsey''s Critical Practice (1980) | |
| Belsey Critiqued | |
| D.A. Miller''s The Novel and the Police (1988) Discussed | |
| The Turn Against Realism in the 1980s | |
| Interest in Gothic | |
| Interest in the not-Said of Realism | |
| The Feminist Recuperation of Realism in 1980s | |
| Extract from Boumehla''s ''Realism and the Ends of Feminism'' (1988) | |
| New Historicism and Historicizing the Real | |
| Rothfield''s Vital Signs (1992) | |
| Nancy Armstrong and Kate Flint | |
| Conclusion | |
| Further Reading | |
| Social-Problem Fiction:Historicism and Feminism | |
| What is Social-Problem Fiction? | |
| Outline of the First Part of Chapter | |
| Cazamian''s Reading in 1903 | |
| The Significance of Raymond Williams | |
| Williams''s ''Structures of Feeling''Williams''s Criticisms of Social-Problem Fiction | |
| The Knowable Community in Williams''s | |
| The English Novel (1970) | |
| Extract from The English Novel | |
| Williams''s Generalizations | |
| Sheila Smith''s Particularization of Williams | |
| More Problems Found in Social-Problem Fiction | |
| Brantlinger''s Historicization: a Context for Social-Problem | |
| Fiction 1 | |
| New Historicism: Further Contexts | |
| Context 2 | |
| Gallagher and the Discourse over Industrialism | |
| Context 3 | |
| Mary Poovey and the Social Body | |
| Extract from Mary Poovey''s Making a Social Body (1995) | |
| Criticisms of New Historicism | |
| Guy and Individualism in the Victorian Mind | |
| Extract from Guy''s The Victorian Social-Problem | |
| Novel (1996) | |
| Feminism and the Social-Problem Novel | |
| Outline of Second Part of Chapter | |
| Recent Work on Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| Bergmann''s Views on Strong Female Characters | |
| Kestner''s Canon Revision | |
| Nord, Female Novelists, and Transgression | |
| Harman, Female Novelists, and Transformation | |
| The Future of Social-Problem Fiction Criticism | |
| Further Reading | |
| Language and Form:Outline of the Chapter | |
| Language and The Victorian Novel | |
| General Linguistic Studies of the Novel | |
| Language of Individual Victorian Novelists | |
| Chapman''s Forms of Speech (1994) | |
| Relation of Arguments to Thinking about Realism | |
| Other Documentary Work on Victorian Language | |
| Bakhtin and Language Studies | |
| Ingham''s Views on Gender and Class | |
| Extract from Ingham The Language of Gender and Class (1996) | |
| Bakhtin and Literature Studies | |
| Form and The Victorian Nov | |
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