The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Volume 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880

Edited by John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the development of the novel in English in the nineteenth century available in one volume
Individual chapters devoted to Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and the Brontës
Cultural and intellectual contexts - religion, psychology, science, the state, and empire - are explored
Sub-genres and narrative forms, including short fiction, realism, the Bildungsroman, the historical novel, and Gothic fictions are discussed
Challenges conventional histories of the nineteenth-century novel by starting in the 1820s rather than the 1830s

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Volume 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880

Edited by John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Description

The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies.

Volume 3, The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1800 charts one of the most significant and exciting periods in the history of the genre. Beginning with the decade in which Scott's work helped inaugurate the three-volume novel, and in which many narrative genres, conventions, and preoccupations associated with Victorian fiction first emerged, it traces how these forms developed and changed in the mid nineteenth century, as the novel became established at the centre of British national culture. The volume includes sections on book history, on major authors, and on the varieties of fiction and range of narrative modes during the period. It also features essays on theories of the novel, and on the novel's relationship to other aesthetic forms. Volume 3 also emphasizes the wider cultural role and significance of the novel during the period, including its impact on ideas of place and nation, as well as its intervention in political, scientific, and intellectual contexts.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Volume 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880

Edited by John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
General Editor's Preface
Introduction
Editorial Note
Note on British Currency before Decimalization
Part I: Novelists, Readers, and the Fiction Industry
1:The Publishing Industry, Joanne Shattock
2:Readers and Reading Practices, Deborah Wynne
3:The Professionalization of Authorship, Graham Law
Part II: Varieties and Genres
4:The Historical Novel, Richard Maxwell
5:Gothic Fictions in the Nineteenth Century, Deborah Lutz
6:The English Bildungsroman, Richard Salmon
7:The Silver Fork Novel, Dianne F. Sadoff
8:The Newgate Novel, Heather Worthington
9:The Sensation Novel, Nancy Armstrong
10:Children's Fiction, Claudia Nelson
11:The Domestic Novel, Susan Fraiman
Part III: Major Authors in Context
12:Charles Dickens: The Novelist as Public Figure, Lyn Pykett
13:The Brontës and the Transformations of Romanticism, John Bowen
14:George Eliot and Intellectual Culture, Dinah Birch
Part IV: Narrative Structures and Strategies
15:Short Fiction and the Novel, Jenny Bourne Taylor
16:Multiple Narrators and Multiple Plots, Jenny Bourne Taylor and John Kucich
17:Addressing the Reader: The Autobiographical Voice, Rachel Ablow
18:Realism and Theories of the Novel, Nicholas Dames
19:Theatricality and the Novel, David Kurnick
20:Aesthetic Theories, Lucy Hartley
Part V: The Nation and its Boundaries
21:Modernization and the Organic Society, John Kucich
22:Place, Region, and Migration, Josephine McDonagh
23:The Novel and Empire, Elaine Freedgood
24:Nationalism and National Identities, James Buzzard
25:International Influences, Margaret Cohen
Part VI: Contemporary Contexts
26:Radicalism and Reform, Ella Dzelzanis
27:Parliament and the State, Lauren Goodlad
28:Science and the Novel, Cannon Schmitt
29:Religion and the Novel, Norman Vance
30:Psychology and the Idea of Character, Michael Davis
31:Gender Identities and Relationships, Cora Kaplan
Bibliography

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Volume 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880

Edited by John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Author Information

Edited by John Kucich, Professor of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Jenny Bourne Taylor, Professor of English, University of Sussex

John Kucich is a Professor of English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has written numerous books and essays on nineteenth-century literature and culture. His publications include Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (Georgia, 1981), Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens (California, 1987), The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (Cornell, 1994), and Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class (Princeton, 2007). He has also edited, with Dianne F. Sadoff, Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (Minnesota, 2000).

Jenny Bourne Taylor is a Professor of English at the University of Sussex. She has written widely on nineteenth-century literature and culture. Her publication include (with Sally Shuttleworth) Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts (Clarendon, 1998), and ed., with Margot Finn and Michael Lobban Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Law, Literature and History (Palgrave, 2010).

Contributors:

Rachel Ablow, University at Buffalo
Nancy Armstrong, Duke University
Ella Dzelzainis, Newcastle University
Dinah Birch, University of Liverpool
John Bowen, York University
James Buzzard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Margaret Cohen, Stanford University
Nicholas Dames, Columbia University
Michael Davis, University of the West of England, Bristol
Susan Fraiman, University of Virginia
Elaine Freedgood, New York University
Lauren Goodlad, University of Illinois
Lucy Hartley, University of Michigan
Cora Kaplan, Queen Mary, University of London
John Kucich, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
David Kurnick, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Graham Law, Waseda University, Japan
Deborah Lutz, Long Island University, C. W. Post
Richard Maxwell, Yale University
Josephine McDonagh, King's College London
Claudia Nelson, Texas A & M University
Lyn Pykett, Aberystwyth University
Dianne F. Sadoff, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Richard Salmon, University of Leeds
Cannon Schmitt, University of Toronto
Joanne Shattock, University of Leicester
Jenny Bourne Taylor, University of Sussex
Norman Vance, University of Sussex
Heather Worthington, Cardiff University
Deborah Wynne, University of Chester