This book guides the student through the fundamentals of this enduring literary form. By using carefully selected novels and discussing a wide range of authors including Emily Dickinson and John Kincaid, the authors provide a lively examination of the particular themes and modes of realist novels of the period. This is the only book currently available to provide such a wide range of primary and secondary material and is the prefect resource for a literature degree.
This book guides the student through the fundamentals of this enduring literary form. By using carefully selected novels and discussing a wide rang...
Studying genre is perhaps one of the most familiar ways of approaching literary texts, and the realist novel is one of the most distinct genres of all. The contributors to this volume look at two aspects of genre, the formal and historical, and show how writers such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens used the realist novel to tell profoundly moral tales in a popular way. The contributors also examine how some writers, such as Mary Shelley, challenged the genre's mainstream characteristics to lasting effect. Among the texts closely studied are: Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, Fathers...
Studying genre is perhaps one of the most familiar ways of approaching literary texts, and the realist novel is one of the most distinct genres of all...
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary, Portrait of a Lady and The Woman in White. The book continues with a consideration of the novel at the fin de siecle, examining Dracula, The Awakening and Heart of Darkness. These fascinating essays illuminate the ways in which the conventions of realism were disrupted as much by...
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores ...
In this original and accessible introduction to post-colonial literatures in English, Dennis Walder guides the reader through the historical, linguistic, and theoretical issues that inform post-colonial literary study.
In this original and accessible introduction to post-colonial literatures in English, Dennis Walder guides the reader through the historical, linguist...
Examining prose, poetry and drama by writers including Achebe, Naipaul, Coetzee, Walcott, Krog, Fugard, and versions of Shakespeare, Walder pursues the often ambiguous paths of nostalgia as it has been represented within and beyond Europe.
Examining prose, poetry and drama by writers including Achebe, Naipaul, Coetzee, Walcott, Krog, Fugard, and versions of Shakespeare, Walder pursues th...
