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Reading Victorian Fiction

The Cultural Context and Ideological Content of the Nineteenth-Century Novel

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  • © 1989

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  1. Andrew Blake
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Problem of Literature and History

    • Andrew Blake
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Interpretation of Past Cultures

    • Andrew Blake
    Pages 15-39

  4. The Context of the Investigation

    • Andrew Blake
    Pages 40-62

  5. Mid-Victorian Literary Culture

    • Andrew Blake
    Pages 63-87

  6. The Point of Contact: Fiction in Blackwood’s and The Cornhill in the Early 1860s

    • Andrew Blake
    Pages 88-106

  7. A Longer View: Fiction and The Fortnightly Review, 1865–75

    • Andrew Blake
    Pages 107-133

  8. Conclusion

    • Andrew Blake
    Pages 134-153

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 154-201
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A study of the interrelationship of the Victorian novel with other forms of writings, arguing that the whole literary culture was concerned with the production of Victorian values, including novels, an active part in the compromise between aristocratic and middle class cultures in this period.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reading Victorian Fiction

  • Book Subtitle: The Cultural Context and Ideological Content of the Nineteenth-Century Novel

  • Authors: Andrew Blake

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19768-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Andrew Blake 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-45826-6Published: 16 February 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-19770-5Published: 01 January 1989

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-19768-2Published: 03 January 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 201

  • Topics: Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature

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