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This concise, engaging anthology collects classic and lesser-known writings on Victorian fiction. "The Victorian Art of Fiction" presents important Victorian statements on the form and the function of fiction. The essays in this anthology address questions of genre, such as realism and sensationalism; questions of gender and authorship; questions of form, such as characterization, plot construction, and narration; and, questions about the morality of fiction. The editor discusses how Victorian writing on the novel has been placed in accounts of the history of criticism and then suggests some...

Combining literary history with cultural studies and feminist historiography, this text revises standard assumptions about Victorian ideas of history, finding an awareness of and experimentation with gender and genre that prefigure theoretical and scholarly concerns in contemporary women's history.