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Books on: victorian novel

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A Companion to the Victorian Novel

Book by William Baker, Kenneth Womack; Greenwood Press, 2002

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Michael H. Whitworth Law and the Victorian Novel 123 Elizabeth F. Judge...Hauntings in the Victorian Novel 151 Lucie J. Armitt The Victorian...The Victorian Social Problem Novel 189 James G. Nelson The Victorian Sensation Novel 209 Helen Debenham Victorian...Victorian Era Religion in the Novels of Charlotte and Anne Bronte...
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Silent Voices: Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers

Book by Brenda Ayres; Praeger, 2003

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English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Commerce in the Senti- mental Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP...Habits. London, 1839. Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed...Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Cul- ture. Charlottesville...Literary Capital and the Late Victorian Novel. Madison: U of Wiscon...Discourse. Rewriting the Victorians. Ed. Linda Shires. New...
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Novel Possibilities: Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture

Book by Joseph W. Childers; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995

Subjects:

Culture In Literature, English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Historiography, Literature And Anthropology--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Literature And Society--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Religion And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Social Change In Literature

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...discursive systems of early Victorian England are similarly informed...Rather, politics and the novel are two major systems of interpretation...critics of the early Victorian novel, especially what has come...industrial" or "social" novel, have argued for the preeminence...aesthetic discourse, coopting the novels own discursive space for the...
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Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel

Book by Diana C. Archibald; University of Missouri Press, 2002

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Colonies In Literature, Domestic Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Emigration And Immigration In Literature, English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Home In Literature, Imperialism In Literature, United States--In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Suffering Mothers in Mid-Victorian Fiction (McKnight), 180...67 68; depiction of, in novels, 68 69; numbers of, 68 Transports...Strategies (Hunter), 47 n36 Victorian novel. See Novel Victorian Spinster and Colonial Emigration...
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The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel

Book by Jeff Nunokawa; Princeton University Press, 1994

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Domestic Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Domestic Relations In Literature, English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Homosexuality In Literature, Marriage In Literature, Property In Literature, Sex In Literature, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the home department ( DS ) of the Victorian novel: trauma ensues there when wives...are cast as such property in the Victorian novel less because the proprietors...Nothing could hurt more in the Victorian novel, where to have property...

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Journal Articles on: victorian novel

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The Victorian Novel in the Material World

Journal article by James Najarian; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 37, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, The Flirt's Tragedy: Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction (Book)--Book reviews, The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine (Book)--Book reviews, The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study (Book)--Book reviews, Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body (Book)--Book reviews

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...Logan does show that the Victorian home is a complex and...in the history of the novel in Deborah Wynnes The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family...and reads sensation novels as their initial readers...the structure of the novel as a whole, where the...actually changes the novels shape. Kayes work is...predictable list of Victorian novels pecked through...
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Collins's Moonstone: The Victorian Novel as Sacrifice, Theft, Gift and Debt

Journal article by Ilana Blumberg; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 37, 2005

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Collins, Wilkie--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism and interpretation, The Moonstone (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Criticism and interpretation

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...were understood by many Victorians to be benevolent and socially...transactions in The Moonstone and in Victorian novels more largely. Rather than...material transactions of the novel. (4) The novels dramatic events of theft...ethical challenges faced by Victorians--and particularly a Victorian...
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Drawing Fictional Lines: Dialect and Narrative the Victorian Novel

Journal article by Susan L. Ferguson; Style, Vol. 32, 1998

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Dialects, Literary criticism, Novels, Victorian period

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and Narrative the Victorian Novel by Susan L. Ferguson...presentation of dialect in novels often appears to...reinforces the novels critique of Victorian morality. We see...Bleak House. A novel that uses a variety...when we read Victorian novels we see much language...dialect in the novel is inherently problematic...
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David Deirdre, Ed. the Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

Journal article by Robert A. Colby; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 35, 2003

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A Companion to the Victorian Novel (Book), Books--Book reviews, The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...to the Victorian Novel. Westport, CT...about the Victorian novel are that it was...nineteenth century read novels, and to the collector...England Companion to Victorian Fiction suggests...that some 7,000 Victorians could lay claim...sensation and detective novels, hew pretty close...fiction. Also, the Victorian novel here is largely...
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The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel

Journal article by Natalie Mcknight; CLIO, Vol. 30, 2001

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Books--Reviews, The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel (Book)--Reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the State, and the Victorian Novel by Natalie McKnight...and the Victorian Novel. By Laura C. Berry...nineteenth-century novels, as Laura Berrys study...the State, and the Victorian Novel, Berry reiterates her...central focus of popular novels. Their tales become...

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Magazine Articles on: victorian novel

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Rossetti's Wombat: Pre-Raphaelites and Australian Animals in Victorian London

Magazine article by Juliet Gardiner; History Today, Vol. 59, July 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Rossetti's Wombat: Pre-Raphaelites and Australian Animals in Victorian London (Novel)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Raphaelites and Australian Animals in Victorian London. by Juliet Gardiner ILLUSTRATION...Raphaelites and Australian Animals in Victorian London (Middlesex University Press...creatures, native to parts of Australia. In Victorian Europe there was a fairly thriving trade...
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Tom Phillips: 'A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel,' 1973

Magazine article by William H. Gass; Artforum International, Vol. 35, November 1996

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Phillips, Tom--Works

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...Phillips: A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel, 1973. by William H. Gass In...telling its own dated tale of Victorian times, a story that has now disappeared...always amused me), these staid Victorian pages can conceal (hidden prudently...
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Eminently Victorian: A Novel about the Early History of Psychiatry Impresses George Walden with Its Diligence, but Leaves Him Wondering If Uprightness, Sobriety and Industry Can Ever Produce More Than Decent Fiction

Magazine article by George Walden; New Statesman, Vol. 134, September 5, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Human Traces (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Eminently Victorian: A Novel about the Early...when the curtain of this novel went up on a pair of 19th...shockingly unfeeling the Victorians were and (by implication...the honesty of a historical novel that the less superior it...heroine, Sonia, ought to be a Victorian woman struggling bravely...empirical knowledge. One of the novels didactic aspects lies in...
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Undressing the Victorians

Magazine article by Roger Kimball; New Criterion, Vol. 21, October 2002

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Art, Victorian, Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York, New York)--Exhibitions, Leighton, Frederick--Works, Nude in art--Exhibitions

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...In other words, "Exposed: The Victorian Nude" is yet another chapter in...is a battle about everything the Victorians are famous for: the "cleanliness...blah? As our distance from the Victorian era grows, we can appreciate more...department of human endeavor, the Victorians are models we dismiss or patronize...in the sentimental schlock that is Victorian painting). Which means among other...
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Flashman and the Victorian Social Conscience

Magazine article by Allan Ramsay; Contemporary Review, Vol. 282, June 2003

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Authors--Behavior, Authors--Works, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age), Fraser, George MacDonald--Behavior, Fraser, George MacDonald--Works, Social classes--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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Flashman and the Victorian social conscience. by...THE series of Flashman novels by George MacDonald Fraser...bully of Thomas Hughes novel Torn Browns Schooldays. Hughes novel, published in 1857...administration. The novels are an enjoyable read...extensive end notes to each novel amplifying the historical...

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Newspaper Articles on: victorian novel

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The War of the Worlds, the Classic Victorian Novel about Britain's Invasion by Aliens, Foreshadowed the Terrible Conflicts of the 20th Century and Is Just as Relevant Today, Argues Professor John Gray the Threat to Our Way of Life Is as Real Today as It Was to HGWells 100 Years Ago

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 5, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Worlds, the Classic Victorian Novel about Britains Invasion...science-fiction novels that made him famous...and a number of novels had appeared dealing...from Wellss earlier novel The Time Machine...this way with the Victorian faith in progress...but his fantastic novels have proved closer...
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Culture: Tom's Genius Brought to Book; Artist Tom Phillips Has Spent Nearly 40 Years Systematically Obliterating a Forgotten Victorian Novel to Create One of Britain's Postmodernist Monuments, Writes Terry Grimley

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 26, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Nearly 40 Years Systematically Obliterating a Forgotten Victorian Novel to Create One of Britains Postmodernist Monuments...Humument, a career-long visual reworking of an obscure Victorian novel, as palimpsesitically intertextual. Phillips first...
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The Victorian Author Who Had Modern Living Down to a Tee; for Sale - 1892 Golf Novel That Predicted Arrival of Caddie Cars and TV

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 20, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Victorian Author Who Had Modern Living...Tee; for Sale - 1892 Golf Novel That Predicted Arrival of Caddie...The British authors 1892 novel correctly prophesied the arrival...pounds sterling70,000. The novel follows Alexander John Gibson...
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How a Teenager's Fantasy Come; at 19, with Four Novels in Print, Catherine Webb Is Tipped to Hit the Big Time with Her Latest Tale, Set in Victorian London ... but She's Staying Remarkably Cool

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 23, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...at 19, with Four Novels in Print, Catherine...Latest Tale, Set in Victorian London ... but Shes...has published two more novels. Her fifth, The Extraordinary...her "breakthrough" novel. Webb comes from a...decades ago. Her first novel, Mirror Dreams, and...next sequence of two novels, Waywalkers and Timekeepers...
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Oliver, a Gripping Taste of Victorian England; TV CRITIC

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), December 22, 2007

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Oliver Twist (Novel)

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Oliver, a Gripping Taste of Victorian England; TV CRITIC. Byline: LIZ...London. Dickens may have written his novel 170 years ago, but the storyline is...DICKENS - young Willam Miller excels as Victorian waif, Oliver Twist

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Encyclopedia Articles on: victorian novel

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Fowles, John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...determinism. His first published novel, The Collector (1963; film...1981) is a multilayered "Victorian" novel that has three alternate endings...England and the form of the novel itself. Fowles also wrote...collection of stories; and the novels Daniel Martin (1977), Mantissa...
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Moore, George

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...writing, publishing his first novel, A Modern Lover, in 1883...introduced naturalism into the Victorian novel. Moores most famous novel, Esther Waters (1894...among his other works are the novels Confessions of a Young Man...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...genre of the historical novel widely popular. Other...noted for his eccentric novels satirizing the romantics. The Victorian Age The Reform Bill...moral propriety. The Novel The Victorian era was...Samuel Butler produced novels satirizing the Victorian ethos, and Robert Louis...of the period, the novel was considered not only...
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Byatt, A. S

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...passionate. Her best-known novel, Possession (1989) at once a mystery, a work of Victorian literary scholarship, a romance...fiction includes a quartet of novels, The Virgin in the Garden...and Insects (1992) and the novel The Biographers Tale (2001), both of which examine Victorian times with a contemporary...
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Butler, Samuel , 1835–1902, English Author

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Main Means of Organic Modification? (1887). In his single novel, the autobiographical The Way of All Flesh (1903), he attacked the Victorian pattern of life, in particular the ecclesiastical environment...witty, The Way of All Flesh is ranked among the great English novels. Butlers notebooks were published in 1912. See selections...

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