Victorian unfinished novels : the imperfect page
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Victorian unfinished novels : the imperfect page
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-195) and index
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Description
The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction: The Sense of Unending: Closing Charlotte Bronte's Emma Becoming Ladies and Gentlemen in W. M. Thackeray's Denis Duval and Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Decomposition of Forms The Strange Case of Weir of Hermiston and St. Ives: R.L. Stevenson's Last Adventures in Narration Time Changes: Anthony Trollope's The Landleaguers and Wilkie Collins's Blind Love Conclusion: Henry James Sensing the Past Notes Bibliography Index
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