The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel (Oxford Handbooks)

Much Has Been Written About The Victorian Novel, And For Good Reason. The Cultural Power It Exerted (and, To Some Extent, Still Exerts) Is Beyond Question. 'the Oxford Handbook Of The Victorian Novel' Contributes Substantially To This Thriving Scholarly Field By Offering New Approaches To Familiar Topics (the Novel And Science, The Victorian Bildungsroman) As Well As Essays On Topics Often Overlooked (the Novel And Classics, The Novel And The Oed, The Novel, And Allusion). Manifesting The Increasing Interdisciplinarity Of Victorian Studies, Its Essays Situate The Novel Within A Complex Network Of Relations (among, For Instance, Readers, Editors, Reviewers, And The Novelists Themselves; Or Among Different Cultural Pressures - The Religious, The Commercial, The Legal). The Handbook's Essays Also Build On Recent Bibliographic Work Of Remarkable Scope And Detail, Responding To The Growing Attention To Print Culture. Beginnings. The Early Nineteenth-century English Novel, 1820-1836 / Peter Garside -- New Histories Of English Literature And The Rise Of The Novel, 1835-1859 / William Mckelvy -- Genre, Criticism And The Early Victorian Novel / Rebecca Edwards Newman -- Publishing, Reading, Reviewing, Quoting, Censoring. Publishing The Victorian Novel / Rachel Sagner Buurma -- The Victorian Novel And Its Readers / Debra Gettelman -- The Victorian Novel And The Reviews / Solveig C. Robinson -- The Victorian Novel And The Oed / Lynda Mugglestone -- The Novel And Censorship In Late-victorian England / Barbara Leckie -- The Victorian Novel Elsewhere. Victorian Novels In France / Marie-francoise Cachin -- Victorian Literature And Russian Culture: Translation, Reception, Influence, Affinity / Julie Buckler -- The Victorian Novel And America / Amanda Claybaugh -- Colonial India And Victorian Storytelling / Margery Sabin --^ Technologies: Communication, Travel, Visual. The Victorian Novel And Communication Networks / Richard Menke -- Technologies Of Travel And The Victorian Novel / Alison Byerly -- Victorian Photography And The Novel / Jennifer Green-lewis -- The Middle. Novels Of The 1860s / Janice Carlisle -- Commerce, Work, Professions. Industrialism And The Victorian Novel / Evan Horwitz -- The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Money: Max Weber, Silas Marner, And The Victorian Novel / George Levine -- The Novel And The Professions / Jennifer Ruth -- Gentleman's Latin, Lady's Greek / Kenneth Haynes -- The Novel And Other Disciplines. The Victorian Novel And Science / Jonathan Smith -- The Victorian Novel And Medicine / Meegan Kennedy -- Naturalizing The Mind In The Victorian Novel: Consciousness In Wilkie Collins's Poor Miss Finch And Thomas Hardy's Woodlanders Two Case Studies / Suzy Anger -- The Victorian Novel And The Law / Jan-melissa Schramm --^ The Novel And Religion: Catholicism And Victorian Women's Novels / Patrick R. O'malley -- The Victorian Novel And Horticulture / Lynn Voskuil -- The Victorian Novel And Theater / Emily Allen -- Poetry And Criticism. Verse Versus The Novel / James Najarian -- Poetic Allusion And The Novel / Philip Horne -- The Novelist As Critic / Christopher Ricks -- Distinguishing The Victorian Novel. The Moral Scope Of The English Bildungsroman / Julia Prewitt Brown -- Three Matters Of Style / Mark Lambert -- Endings. The Novel, Its Critics, And The University: A New Beginning? / Anna Vaninskaya -- The Victorian Novel And The New Woman / Talia Schaffer -- The Last Victorian Novel. Slapstick Noir: The Secret Agent Works The Victorian Novel / Rosemarie Bodenheimer -- The Quest Of The Silver Fleece, By W. E. B. Du Bois / Daniel Hack. Edited By Lisa Rodensky. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction PART I: BEGINNINGS 1. The Early 19th-Century English Novel, 1820–1836 2. New Histories of English Literature and the Rise of the Novel, 1835–1859 3. Genre, Criticism, and the Early Victorian Novel PART II: PUBLISHING, READING, REVIEWING, QUOTING, CENSORING 4. Publishing the Victorian Novel 5. The Victorian Novel and Its Readers 6. The Victorian Novel and the Reviews 7. The Victorian Novel and the OED 8. The Novel and Censorship in Late-Victorian England PART III: THE VICTORIAN NOVEL ELSEWHERE 9. Victorian Novels in France 10. Victorian Literature and Russian Culture: Translation, Reception, Influence, Affinity 11. The Victorian Novel and America 12. Colonial India and Victorian Storytelling PART IV: TECHNOLOGIES: COMMUNICATION, TRAVEL , VISUALITY 13. The Victorian Novel and Communication Networks 14. Technologies of Travel and the Victorian Novel 15. Victorian Photography and the Novel PART V: THE MIDDLE 16. Novels of the 1860s PART VI: COMMERCE, WORK, PROFESSIONS, STATUS 17. Industrialism and the Victorian Novel 18. The Protestant Ethic and the ‘Spirit’ of Money: Max Weber, Silas Marner, and the Victorian Novel 19. The Victorian Novel and the Professions 20. Gentleman’s Latin, Lady’s Greek PART VII: THE NOVEL AND OTHER DISCIPLINES 21. The Victorian Novel and Science 22. The Victorian Novel and Medicine 23. Naturalizing the Mind in the Victorian Novel: Consciousness in Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch and Thomas Hardy’s Woodlanders—Two Case Studies 24. The Victorian Novel and the Law 25. The Novel and Religion: Catholicism and Victorian Women’s Novels 26. The Victorian Novel and Horticulture PART VIII: DRAMA, POETRY, AND CRITICISM 27. The Victorian Novel and Theatre 28. Verse Versus the Novel 29. Poetic Allusion in the Victorian Novel 30. The Novelist as Critic PART IX: DISTINGUISHING THE VICTORIAN NOVEL 31. The Moral Scope of the English Bildungsroman 32. Three Matters of Style PART X: ENDINGS 33. The Novel, Its Critics, and the University: A New Beginning? 34. The Victorian Novel and the New Woman 35. The Last Victorian Novel I. Slapstick Noir: The Secret Agent Works the Victorian Novel II. The Quest of the Silver Fleece Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and science, the Victorian Bildungroman) as well as essays on topics often overlooked (the novel and classics, the novel and the OED , the novel, and allusion). Manifesting the increasing interdisciplinarity of Victorian studies, its essays situate the novel within a complex network of relations (among, for instance, readers, editors, reviewers, and the novelists themselves; or among different cultural pressures - the religious, the commercial, the legal). The handbook's essays also build on recent bibliographic work of remarkable scope and detail, responding to the growing attention to print culture. With a detailed introduction and 36 newly commissioned chapters by leading and emerging scholars -- beginning with Peter Garside's examination of the early nineteenth-century novel and ending with two essays proposing the 'last Victorian novel' -- the handbook attends to the major themes in Victorian scholarship while at the same time creating new possibilities for further research. Balancing breadth and depth, the clearly-written, nonjargon -laden essays provide readers with overviews as well as original scholarship, an approach which will serve advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scholars. As the Victorians get further away from us, our versions of their culture and its novel inevitably change; this Handbook offers fresh explorations of the novel that teach us about this genre, its culture, and, by extension, our own. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to the thriving scholarly field of Victorian studies by offering 36 original chapters that offer new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and science, the Victorian Bildungsroman) as well as examining often overlooked topics (the novel and classics, the novel and the OED, the novel and allusion). Manifesting the increasing interdisciplinarity of Victorian studies, the handbookʹs chapters situate the novel within a complex network of relations (among, for instance, readers, editors, reviewers, and the novelists themselves; or among different cultural pressures -- the religious, the commercial, the legal)