num_pages: 592
description: The Nineteenth-Century A Critical Reader provides a comprehensive selection of contemporary and modern essays on the most important novels of the period. By bringing together a range of material written across two centuries, it offers an insight into the changing reception of realist fiction and a discussion of how complex debates about the meaning and function of realism informed and shaped the kind of fiction that was written in the nineteenth century. The novels discussed Northanger Abbey , Jane Eyre , Dombey and Son , Middlemarch , Far From the Madding Crowd , Germinal , Madame Bovary, The Woman in White , The Portrait of a Lady , The Awakening , Dracula , Heart of Darkness .
language: English
title: The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader
titlecomplete: The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader
genres: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Literature, 19th Century
ratings_count: 49
publisher: Routledge