Victorian Unfinished Novels [electronic resource] : The Imperfect Page /
Tomaiuolo, S.author.
The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Sense of Unending: Closing Charlotte Brontë's Emma -- Becoming Ladies and Gentlemen in W. M. Thackeray's Denis Duval and Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters -- The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Decomposition of Forms -- The Strange Case of Weir of Hermiston and St. Ives: R.L. Stevenson's Last Adventures in Narration -- Time Changes: Anthony Trollope's The Landleaguers and Wilkie Collins's Blind Love -- Conclusion: Henry James Sensing the Past -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon.
Fiction.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
European literature.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
European Literature.