Victorian Renovations of the Novel
Subtitle: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521021470
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction--19th century--History and cr; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism-Semiotics & Theory; 19th century; English fiction; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Literature and society; Mimesis in literature
First sentence: This study of the Victorian novel identifies a technique employed across its various kinds - in social fictions, fictional autobiographies, Bildungsromanen, Condition of England novels, romances, and realistic novels - to renovate the nineteenth-century house of fiction.