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Title:

My Victorian novel : critical essays in the personal voice / edited and with an introduction by Annette R. Federico ; with a foreword by Jane Tompkins.

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xiii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Identity (Psychology)
Interest (Psychology)
Authors and readers.
Books and reading.
Literature--Psychology.
Authors and readers.
Books and reading.
English fiction.
Identity (Psychology)
Interest (Psychology)
Literature--Psychology.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Federico, Annette, 1960- writer of introduction. writer of introduction.
Tompkins, Jane P., writer of foreword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword by Jane Tompkins -- Introduction: In the Personal Voice / Annette R. Federico -- 1. Identifying as a Reader / Andrea Kaston Tange : On Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë -- 2. Mourning Glencora / Deborah Denenholz Morse : On The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope -- 3. A Skeptical Education / Terrance Riley : On The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle -- 4. Victorian Fable-Lands / So Young Park : On The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray -- 5. "What do I think of glory?" / Beverley Park Rilett : On Middlemarch by George Eliot -- 6. Unhinged / Ellen Rosenman : On Daniel Deronda by George Eliot -- 7. Words Like Violence / Sara Malton : On The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy -- 8. Stock Exchanges / Jonathan Farina : On Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray -- 9. An Ethics of Place / Mary-Catherine Harrison : On North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell -- 9. What Esther Thinks About Sex / Catherine Robson On Bleak House by Charles Dickens -- 11. Liking David Copperfield / Michael J. Flynn : On David Copperfield by Charles Dickens -- 12. Endless Circling, Perpetual Beginning / Tom Ue On New Grub Street by George Gissing -- 13. Let to a Single Gentleman / Lillian Nayder On The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens -- 14. Bedtime Reading / Narin Hassan On Dracula by Bram Stoker -- 15. The Hand of Fate / Annette R. Federico : Annette R. Federico On Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

Summary:

"The previously unpublished essays collected here are by literary scholars who have dedicated their lives to reading and studying nineteenth-century British fiction and the Victorian world. Each writes about a novel that has acquired personal relevance to them--a work that has become entwined with their own story, or that remains elusive or compelling for reasons hard to explain"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0826222072
9780826222077

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1119641258

LCCN:

2019052073

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)