How to Read the Victorian Novel by George Levine

How to Read the Victorian Novel by George Levine

How to Read the Victorian Novel unpicks our comfortable expectations of the genre to fully explore just how unfamiliar its familiarity is: emphasizing the complexity and contradictions in Victorian writers' attempts to deal with a world heading into modernity at full speed.

"Reading How to Read the Victorian Novel, I found myself nodding along, admiring the vigor and clarity with which Levine articulate what we all ready know. . until I was brought up short by the recognition that 1 didn't actually know these things, so simply and so fundamentally, until Levine had said them in this book." (Victorian Studies, Winter 2010)“Any student of Victorian fiction and culture will benefit from reading this refreshing reexamination of the major Victorian novels. Recommended.” (Choice Reviews, October 2008)

"A broad-ranging introduction to the genre using examples from the classics." Times Higher Education Supplement

George Levine is the Kenneth Burke Professor of English at Rutgers University where he is also Director of the Center for the Analysis of Contemporary Culture. He is the author of Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England (2002), The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (2001), Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction (1991), and The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley (1983).

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ISBN 13	9781405130561
ISBN 10	1405130563
Title	How to Read the Victorian Novel
Author	George Levine
Series	How To Study Literature
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2007-12-13
Number of pages	192
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