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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Victorian novel"”.
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The Neo-Victorian Novel, 1990-2010
… the twenty-first witnessed a surge of published novels with direct and indirect connection to the Victorian era, at a time when a focus on the new millenium might have been expected. This proliferation of what came to be termed 'neo-Victorian novels' shows no sign of abating and has now given …
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Round the Corner: Pawnbroking in the Victorian Novel
… credit developed. As Mary Poovey has explained, Victorian writing's preoccupation with money and personal wealth, and its frequent depiction of financial crises, can be seen as an effort to understand the underlying principles of the confusing yet vital financial world that was taking shape. One …
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Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel
How do Victorian novels, those detailed imaginative records of psychic interiority and social life, put into language the aspect of our interior lives that seems most stubbornly nonlinguistic: that is, the insistent claims and impulses of erotic desire? If Victorian culture valued reason and …
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The Last Will and Testament in The Victorian Novel
… will and testament is especially prominent in Victorian fiction: in such masterpieces as Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, and Our Mutual Friend, and in such lesser works as Henry Kingsley's Ravenshoe and Rider Haggard's Mr. Meeson's Will. The dissertation focuses on those fictional wills for which we …
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
… fundamental area of concern and crisis in the Victorian era. Recent scholarship has done much to illuminate the evolving role of women, particularly in regard to the development of the New Woman. I propose that there is an intermediary character type that exists between Coventry Patmore's …
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
<p>Victorian inquisitiveness about sleep and dysfunctions of sleep is exemplified in novels published during the fifty-year period from <em>Jane Eyre</em> (1847) to <em>Dracula</em> (1897). This inquisitiveness foreshadows modern medical sleep science and immerses the reading public in a body of …
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Forming Ideology: The Work of Narrative Form in the Victorian Novel
… British fiction. It reads a wide range of mostly Victorian novels to illustrate how narrative form acts as a determining, not just determined, component of ideological work, and to uncover the largely unrecognized work this type of reading brings to fight. It thereby differs from prevailing …
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The Ambivalent Attitude Toward The Orphan in The Early Victorian Novel
In early Victorian fiction, orphans are seen as nurturing angels and as depraved beasts. This study analyzes why orphans are treated so ambivalently. It also explains how angelic waifs give serious-minded Victorians a way of contending with destructive change and moral breakdown and why depraved …
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Accounting for Mysteries: Narratives of Intuition and Empiricism in the Victorian Novel
… of knowing the world as depicted in popular Victorian novels. These narratives attempt to assimilate alternate modes of understanding; however, the uneasiness of the relationship between empiricism and intuition speaks to larger cultural tensions about the possibility of reconciling fact and …
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Your own personal Jesus : individualized religious sectarianism in the mid-victorian novel.
This Dissertation explores four novels from the mid-nineteenth century, two of which are by canonical authors, Charles Dickens and George Eliot; two not as well known, Charles Kingsley and Charlotte Yonge. The nineteenth century, in particular the century's central decades, was a time of great …
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Humankindness: Illness, Animality, and the Limits of the Human in the Victorian Novel
… animality and representations of illness in the Victorian novel, and examines the narrative uses and ideological consequences of such representations. Figurations of animality and illness in Victorian fiction have been examined extensively as distinct phenomena, but examining their connection …
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Girls of the Period Women Critics and Constructions of the Feminine in the Mid-Victorian Novel.
… to monitor constructions of womanhood in the novels of women writers. The notion of a feminine critical discourse about gender is a familiar one. There has been academic interest in the reactions of reviewers such as Margaret Oliphant and Geraldine Jewsbury to images of the feminine in …
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Fear of the Colonized Other in Richard Marsh's The Beetle
<p>This thesis argues Richard Marsh’s Victorian novel The Beetle offers a critique of British colonial practices through the reverse colonization experiences had by British characters in the novel. Intrusive, exploitative actions perpetrated by the British subjects in the novel invite reciprocal …
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Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction
… is a study of recognition scenes in the Victorian novel and their relation to Marx's concept of commodity fetishism. Victorian recognition scenes often show a hero's self-discovery as a retrospective identification with things. When, for example, in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, …
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Rebel Discords: George Meredith's Metrical Art
… known for his innovative contributions to the Victorian novel. Unfortunately, his formal experiments in poetry have gone unnoticed. This dissertation seeks to rectify this problem by examining Meredith's metrical art and the ways in which he departs from the metrical tradition. The first …
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Female Ensembles: Lesbian Neo-Victorian Fiction, 1998-2023
… (1997) to lesbian literary history through neo-Victorian novels, short fiction, and film from the last twenty-five years. Chapter one argues that this subgenre of writing attempts to revise the fragmented historical record of queer history, and these texts hope for a liberated queer future by …
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The Novelty of Rights: Advocacy for the Marginalized Subject in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… language’ influenced how mid-nineteenth-century novelists advocated for marginalized subjects – namely, women, children, and slaves – in Victorian Britain. Debates about rights, sparked by the Revolutions in America and France, centred on the act of declaring them publicly. The taut, repeatable …
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Wandering, Idleness, and the Nineteenth-Century Tales Novel, 1836-1895
<p>In "The Late-Victorian Romance Revival" (2008) Anna Vaninskaya questions if "one [can] even speak of the mixing or hybridization of genres in a particular work if the genres themselves had not yet been conclusively defined" (60). This question serves as a warning to genre studies scholars …
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Beyond Scandal: Seeking Morality in Sensation Fiction
Contemporary critics condemned sensation novels on the grounds of excessive immorality. However, three of the most popular sensation novels display a pattern of increased social status as a reward for good behavior is common, clearly suggesting that notions about the genre as immoral are misguided. …
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The Serial Imagination: Novel Form, Serial Format, and Victorian Reading Publics
<p>A great many Victorian novels were originally written, published, distributed, and read in parts over time—that is to say, serially. Yet today we rarely read those novels in serial format. Nor do we consider that format in any way equivalent to what we mean by the form of the novels in question. …
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