{"product_id":"the-victorian-novel-in-context-paperback","title":"The Victorian Novel in Context - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrace Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts including Dickens's \u003cem\u003eOliver Twist\u003c\/em\u003e, Gaskell's \u003cem\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/em\u003e and Hardy's \u003cem\u003eThe Mayor of Casterbridge\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Victorian Novel in Context\u003c\/em\u003e examines the changing readership resulting from the growth of mass literacy and the effect that this had on the form of the novel. Taking texts from the early, mid and late Victorian period it encourages students to consider how serialization shaped the nineteenth-century novel. It highlights the importance of politics, religion and the evolutionary debate in 'classic' Victorian texts. \u003cbr\u003eAddressing key concerns including realist writing, literature and imperialism, urbanization and women's writing, it introduces students to a variety of the most important critical approaches to the novels. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying the Victorian novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace Moore teaches in the English and Theatre\u003cbr\u003eprogramme at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Dickens and Empire (Ashgate, 2004), \u003cbr\u003ewhich was shortlisted for the 2006 New South Wales Premier's Award for Literary\u003cbr\u003eScholarship, the editor of Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth\u003cbr\u003eCentury (Ashgate, 2011), and the co-editor (with Andrew Maunder) of Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation\u003cbr\u003e(Ashgate, 2004).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335598850297,"sku":"9781847064899","price":68.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UXd5cTVWU3ZLYTdTRDhPNjA5dStNUT09.webp?v=1769663350","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-victorian-novel-in-context-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}