The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction

An ambitious weave of ideological, literary, and commodity history, The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot sacralized Victorian modernity in two contradictory ways: by incarnating their moment as one of transcendent development, and by reenacting bloody rituals from a fading Protestant past. Both the magnitude and the brevity of their success make these works exemplary for our own era, caught between the archaic gods of traditional religion and the still-mysterious ones of market society.

The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction features in the following genres: European history, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history and criticism, History, Fiction

The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction is available in Paperback

The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction was written by D Payne and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK

The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction has 206 pages

Yes it is part of Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture series

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