Art and society in the Victorian novel : essays on Dickens and his contemporaries
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Art and society in the Victorian novel : essays on Dickens and his contemporaries
（Macmillan studies in Victorian literature）
Macmillan, 1989
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This collection of essays by established critics and scholars attempts to offer explorations of fresh facets, public and private of the art of the major Victorian novelists, in many cases supported by extended close readings of their novels. There are four studies of novels by Dickens, and studies of novels by Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Trollope and Kipling are also provided. Colin Gibson is author of "The Interpretative Power" and he has written articles and essays on Renaissance drama and poetry and modern poetry and hymnology.
Table of Contents
- Laughter, imagination and the cruelty of life - a view of "Oliver Twist", J.Watson
- "Bleak House" - another look at Jo, K.Tillotson
- form and fable in "Hard Times", J.Holloway
- the choir master and the single buffer - an essay on "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", W.W.Robson
- "I must keep in good health and not die" - the conception of the self in an unorthodox Victorian novel, M.Allott
- love and the aspiring mind in "Villette", J.Harris
- the historic imagination in George Eliot, I. Milner
- physicians in Victorian fiction, P. Collins
- Trollope's love stories - from "Framley Parsonage" to "The Belton Estate", J.McMaster
- "Under the Greenwood Tree" and the Victorian pastoral, L.Jones
- the complex simplicity of "The Ambassadors", D.W.Harding
- "when 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre", S.Musgrove
- a checklist of publications and reviews, 1948-1986, E.A.Horsman.
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