Reading the Victorian Novel is a clear and engaging introduction to Victorian fiction.
In this book, Annette Federico invites readers to turn their attention to the bursting imaginations and formal inventiveness of Victorian novelists themselves. Five conventions prevailed in the building of a Victorian novel: serialisation, narration, plotting, description, and characterization. Each chapter is rich in examples of these practices and attentive to the historical and cultural contexts that shaped them, as well as to the responses and judgments of Victorian readers and contemporary scholars. Federico keeps the focus on the writer's choices and the reader's experience--on the meeting of minds and imaginations against the backdrop of history.
Reading the Victorian Novel is an appreciative and discerning guide for anyone with an interest in the resonant and vibrant worlds of nineteenth-century fiction.
| ISBN: | 9781032483092 |
| Publication date: | 19th February 2024 |
| Author: | Annette Federico |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 126 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
Reading the Victorian Novel is a clear and engaging introduction to Victorian fiction.
In this book, Annette Federico invites readers to turn their attention to the bursting imaginations and formal inventiveness of Victorian novelists themselves. Five conventions prevailed in the building of a Victorian novel: serialisation, narration, plotting, description, and characterization. Each chapter is rich in examples of these practices and attentive to the historical and cultural contexts that shaped them, as well as to the responses and judgments of Victorian readers and contemporary scholars. Federico keeps the focus on the writer's choices and the reader's experience--on the meeting of minds and imaginations against the backdrop of history.
Reading the Victorian Novel is an appreciative and discerning guide for anyone with an interest in the resonant and vibrant worlds of nineteenth-century fiction.
Reading the Victorian Novel features in the following genres: Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Reading the Victorian Novel is available in Paperback
Reading the Victorian Novel was written by Annette Federico and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Reading the Victorian Novel has 126 pages
£36.89