The Victorian Novel
Blackwell Guides to Criticism
1. Edition July 2002
368 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-22703-8
John Wiley & Sons
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Acknowledgements.
Textual Note.
Introduction.
1. Early Criticism of the Victorian Novel from James.
2. F.R. Leavis and The Great Tradition.
3. Feminism and the Victorian Novel in the 1970s.
4. Realism.
5. Social-Problem Fiction.
6. Language and Form.
7. Science and the Victorian Novel.
8. The History of the Book.
9. Postcolonial Readings.
Index.
Textual Note.
Introduction.
1. Early Criticism of the Victorian Novel from James.
2. F.R. Leavis and The Great Tradition.
3. Feminism and the Victorian Novel in the 1970s.
4. Realism.
5. Social-Problem Fiction.
6. Language and Form.
7. Science and the Victorian Novel.
8. The History of the Book.
9. Postcolonial Readings.
Index.
"O'Gorman functions as more author than editor in this second
volume in the "Blackwell Guides to Criticism" series, providing a
lucid, readable narrative accessible to the non-specialist.[...] In
its definition and summary of current critical theories, the book
will prove useful to all students of literature, not just those
interested in the Victorian period. Highly recommended for all
collections." Choice
"this will be a useful companion to any English or History
course whatever the level of study and will provide a concise and
clear critique that can be applied to any Victorian novel."
Reference Reviews
"It is the kind of book you come back to, repeatedly consult,
and would find absorbing whether or not you were an academic
teacher. It is likely to serve for a long time as a fruitful
reminder of how the practice of literary criticism has permanently
changed the way we enjoy the old-fashioned narrative pleasures of
the Victorian novel." The Brown Book
volume in the "Blackwell Guides to Criticism" series, providing a
lucid, readable narrative accessible to the non-specialist.[...] In
its definition and summary of current critical theories, the book
will prove useful to all students of literature, not just those
interested in the Victorian period. Highly recommended for all
collections." Choice
"this will be a useful companion to any English or History
course whatever the level of study and will provide a concise and
clear critique that can be applied to any Victorian novel."
Reference Reviews
"It is the kind of book you come back to, repeatedly consult,
and would find absorbing whether or not you were an academic
teacher. It is likely to serve for a long time as a fruitful
reminder of how the practice of literary criticism has permanently
changed the way we enjoy the old-fashioned narrative pleasures of
the Victorian novel." The Brown Book
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.
