{"product_id":"9780313314070","title":"Companion to the Victorian Novel","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCompanion to the Victorian Novel\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWilliam Baker | Kenneth Womack\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ European \/ English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictorian novels remain enormously popular today: some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught at all levels. These works have also attracted a great deal of critical attention, with much current scholarship examining the novel in relation to its historical, political, and cultural contexts. This reference book is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel, its background, and its legacy. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and offers a fresh account of past, current, and new directions in scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume is divided into several broad sections, with chapters in each section treating more specialized topics. The first section looks at the emergence of the Victorian novel and its literary precursors, with particular emphasis on the growth of serialization and the development of the novel of syndication. The second explores significant social and cultural facets of nineteenth-century British literature, while the third discusses the principal features of different genres, such as ghost stories, the Gothic, detective fiction, the social problem novel, and contemporary film adaptations. Individual authors are examined in the fourth section, while the fifth overviews various critical approaches and their application to nineteenth-century fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eWILLIAM BAKER is Professor, Department of English, and Professor, University Libraries, at Northern Illinois University. He is the Editor of \u003ci\u003eGeorge Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the author or editor of such volumes as \u003ci\u003eHarold Pinter\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), \u003ci\u003eGeorge Eliot and Judaism\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), \u003ci\u003eThe Libraries of George Eliot and G. H. Lewes\u003c\/i\u003e (1981), \u003ci\u003eF.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis: An Annotated Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eThe Early History of the London Library\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of George Henry Lewes\u003c\/i\u003e (1995, 1999), \u003ci\u003eLiterary Theories: A Case Study in Critical Performance\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), and \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Wilkie Collins\u003c\/i\u003e (1999).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKENNETH WOMACK is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Altoona. In addition to coauthoring \u003ci\u003eRecent Work in Critical Theory, 1989-1995: An Annotated Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e (Greenwood, 1996) and \u003ci\u003eTwentieth-Century Bibliography and Textual Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e (Greenwood, 2000), and coediting the \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Literary Biography's\u003c\/i\u003e three-volume \u003ci\u003eBritish Book Collectors and Bibliographers\u003c\/i\u003e series (1997-1999), he has published numerous articles on twentieth-century British and American literature and film. He is editor of \u003ci\u003eInterdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eWorld Shakespeare Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e, and associate editor of \u003ci\u003eGeorge Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30 January 2002\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGreenwood\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780313314070\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e464\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e28.8\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331874291852,"sku":"9780313314070","price":81.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_5cb5a462-1362-439a-ab47-d62238ade510.jpg?v=1783599675","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780313314070","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}