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- Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Austen to Eliot
Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Austen to Eliot
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From Jane Austen's Persuasion to George Eliot's Middlemarch, the nineteenth century marks the rise of the novel as the dominant form of Western literature. This engaging text offers readers a close analysis of novels that are uniquely representative of the time period, including the work of Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Brontë sisters.
An indispensable resource for students and teachers alike, this accessible guidebook:
* Places strong emphasis on the distinctive perspectives and discursive practices of narrators
* Provides in-depth analyses of individual passages
* Highlights the differences between the assumptions and experiences of the era in which the novels were written and those of the modern reader
* Draws key distinctions between novelists
* Explores significant theoretical approaches such as Foucauldian, Postcolonial, Bakhtinian and feminist criticism
* Offers an overview of the social, economic, and political change that influenced the fiction of the time.
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