Product Description

Provides a valuable selection of nineteenth-century essays on the art of fiction. These contemporary essays are strategically placed alongside a selection of modern critical responses to twelve familiar nineteenth-century novels.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120860 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

Review
'No other book provides such a comprehensive selection of contemporary and modern essays and reviews on the most important novels of the period.' - English Association for Literature and Language Newsletter

'Indispensible to any course on Victorian literature.' - Times Higher Education Supplement

'Stephen Regan's hefty collection of essays on the 19th century novel is indispensable to any course on Victorian literature.' - Times Higher Education Supplement

'This compendium of sixty or so essays provides every angle on fiction anyone could possibly want, with unobtrusive orientation for less experienced students of literature.' - Joy Alexander, Use of English

From the Back Cover
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader provides a fascinating selection of nineteenth-century essays and reviews on twelve important novels of the period. They are placed alongside modern critical essays specially chosen for their diverse readings of particular novels.
By bringing together a range of critical material written across two centuries, the volume 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 are: 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 and Heart of Darkness.

About the Author
Stephen Regan is Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.