English Fiction of the Victorian Period

By: Michael Wheeler

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Paperback | 20 June 1994 | Edition Number 2

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Professor Wheeler's widely-acclaimed survey of nineteenth century fiction covers both the major writers and their work and encompasses the genres and 'minor' fiction of the period. It provides the student with the best introduction and reference source to the period on the market. The second edition has been revised in the light of review comments and incorporates new material on lesser-known writers as well as a comprehensively updated bibliography.

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"This is a very good book. It is admirably lucid, written with terseness but generosity...students in higher education for whom this book is intended will be richly rewarded; students and readers of individual novels will benefit from a piecemeal approach." British Book News

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Editors' Preface
Longman Literature in English Series
Author's Preface to the First Edition
Author's Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction	p. 1
Pre-Victorian and Early Victorian Fiction	p. 15
Fads and fashions: historical, silver-fork, Newgate and social-problem novels	p. 15
Gamblers and speculators: early Thackeray	p. 22
The privilege of chronicles: early Dickens	p. 25
Mid-Century Fiction	p. 35
A Victorian identity: social-problem, religious and historical novels	p. 35
No new thing under the sun: Thackeray's major novels	p. 46
Souls enslaved: the Brontes	p. 62
An environment of circumstances: Elizabeth Gaskell	p. 75
Themes and variations: Dickens at mid-century	p. 82
High Victorian Fiction	p. 100
Retrospect and prospect: sensational, historical, school and religious novels, fantasy	p. 100
The mysteries of identity: late Dickens	p. 110
Truth and a high but gentle spirit: Anthony Trollope	p. 121
Incarnate history and unhistoric acts: George Eliot	p. 132
Those high notes and condensings: Meredith	p. 154
Late Victorian Fiction	p. 171
Explorations: the new realists and the romance revival, Utopian and religious novels	p. 171
Circles of hell: Gissing	p. 187
Significant simplicity: Stevenson	p. 192
Art is a disproportioning: Hardy	p. 198
Chronology	p. 217
General Bibliographies	p. 237
Individual Authors	p. 250
Index	p. 286
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