Victorian literature /

How were the genres of literature changed by new methods of serialization and publishing? How did a widespread culture of performance emerge in the period to shape as well as to be shaped by the novel and poetry? David Amigoni draws on the most recent critical approaches to the novel, Victorian melo...

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Autore principale: Amigoni, David
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ©2011.
Serie:Edinburgh critical guides to literature.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b4wf
Sommario:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction to Victorian Literature: Perspectives, Relationships, Contexts; Chapter 1 Novel Sensations in Early and Mid-Victorian Fiction: From 'Boz' to Middlemarch; Chapter 2 Theatrical Exchanges: Gendered Subjectivity and Identity Trials in the Dramatic Imagination; Chapter 3 Poetry: Dramatic Monologues and Critical Dialogues; Chapter 4 Victorians in Critical Time: Fin de Siècle and Sage-culture; Conclusion: Neo-Victorianism, Postmodernism and Underground Cultures; Student Resources; Index.