Cover of Victorian Renovations of the Novel

Book 2005

Victorian Renovations of the Novel

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Published
2005
  • Semiotics & Theory
  • Literary Criticism
  • British Isles
  • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • 19th century
  • English fiction
  • Great Britain
  • History

This study of the Victorian novel identifies a technique employed across its various kinds - in social fictions, fictional autobiographies, Bildungsromanen, Condition of England novels, romances, and realistic novels - to renovate the nineteenth-century house of fiction.