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1 online resource (324 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ONE: The Victorian ""Multiverse"": Bleak House; TWO: The Cant of Reform: The Warden; THREE: Mutual Recrimination: Hard Times; FOUR: An Ultra-Dickensian Novel: The Woman in White; FIVE: Undoing by Outdoing Continued: Great Expectations; SIX: Inimitability Regained: The Mystery of Edwin Drood; SEVEN: ""That Arduous Invention"": Middlemarch; EIGHT: Conclusions: Realism, Revaluation, and Realignment; NOTES; INDEX. |
| Summary |
Victorian fiction has been read and analyzed from a wide range of perspectives in the past century. But how did the novelists themselves read and respond to each other's creations when they first appeared? Jerome Meckier answers that intriguing question in this ground-breaking study of what he terms the Victorian realism wars. Meckier argues that nineteenth-century British fiction should be seen as a network of intersecting reactions and counteractions in which the novelists rethought and rewrote each other's novels as a way of enhancing their own credibility. In an increasingly relative world, |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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19th century |
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Literary quarrels -- Great Britain.
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Literary quarrels. |
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Great Britain. |
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Realism in literature.
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Realism in literature. |
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Social problems in literature.
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Social problems in literature. |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Meckier, Jerome. Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction : Dickens, Realism, and Revaluation. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813116228 |
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9780813159591 (electronic book) |
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0813159598 (electronic book) |
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