The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901.

• Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period.


• Explains issues such as Victorian religions, class structure, and Darwinism to those who are unfamiliar with them.


• Comprises original, accessible chapters written by renowned and emerging scholars in the field of Victorian studies.
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This book offers original inroads to understanding the life and works of the celebrated novelist and poet. In "The Way We Read James Dickey" editors William B. Thesing and Theda Wrede have assembled an outstanding collection of current critical responses to the works of the acclaimed novelist, poet, and teacher, including essays by Dickey's former colleagues at the University of South Carolina and a piece by his most famous student, novelist Pat Conroy. The volume breaks new ground in the application of innovative critical approaches and restores Dickey to his rightful place in the literary...

William B. Thesing, James Dickey s colleague at the University of South Carolina for twenty years, has a unique and complex perspective on the life and writing of this great twentieth-century American author. Dickey offers readers, students, and teachers a variety of energized and imaginative texts, and Thesing provides original and perceptive readings of his life and his novels as well as his most popular poems about animals in nature, man in nature, social and sexual relationships, women, and civilian and wartime death.
This is the only introductory teaching/study guide available on...