The oxford history of the novel in english: volume 3: the nineteenth-century novel 1820-1880

Volume 3 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English traces how many narrative genres, conventions, and preoccupations associated with Victorian fictionemerged and developed as the novel became established at the centre of British national culture. It includes sections on book history, major authors, and contemporary contexts. The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work ofmajor novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies.Volume 3, The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1800 charts one of the most significant and exciting periods in the history of the genre. Beginning with the decade in which Scott's work helped inaugurate the three-volume novel, and in which many narrative genres, conventions, and preoccupations associated with Victorian fiction first emerged, it traces how these forms developed and changed in the mid nineteenth century, as the novel became established at the centre of British nationalculture. The volume includes sections on book history, on major authors, and on the varieties of fiction and range of narrative modes during the period. It also features essays on theories of the novel, and on the novel's relationship to other aesthetic forms. Volume 3 also emphasizes the wider cultural role andsignificance of the novel during the period, including its impact on ideas ofplace and nation, as well as its intervention in political, scientific, and intellectual contexts. INDICE: Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Illustrations List ofTables General Editor's Preface Introduction Editorial Note Note on British Currency before Decimalization Part I: Novelists, Readers, and the Fiction Industry The Publishing Industry Readers and Reading Practices The Professionalization of Authorship Part II: Varieties and Genres The Historical Novel Gothic Fictions in the Nineteenth Century The English Bildungsroman The Silver Fork Novel The Newgate Novel The Sensation Novel Children's Fiction The Domestic Novel Part III: Major Authors in Context Charles Dickens: The Novelist as Public Figure The Bronts and the Transformations of Romanticism George Eliot and Intellectual Culture Part IV: Narrative Structures and Strategies Short Fiction andthe Novel Multiple Narrators and Multiple Plots Addressing the Reader: The Autobiographical Voice Realism and Theories of the Novel Theatricality and the Novel Aesthetic Theories Part V: The Nation and its Boundaries Modernization and the Organic Society Place, Region, and Migration The Novel and Empire Nationalism and National Identities International Influences Part VI: Contemporary Contexts Radicalism and Reform Parliament and the State Science and the Novel Religion and the Novel Psychology and the Idea of Character Gender Identities and Relationships Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-956061-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 592
• Fecha Publicación: 03/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés