Amanpal Garcha

From Sketch to Novel

The Development of Victorian Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how the literary sketch influenced the careers of William Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 633g
• ISBN-13: 9780521513586
• ISBN-10: 0521513588
• Artikelnr.: 26204958

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction: From Sketch to Novel: 1. Modern
change and aestheticized stasis in the early nineteenth century; 2.
Plotless styles in novel history and theory; Part II. Journalism,
Modernity, and Stasis in The Paris Sketch Book and The History of
Pendennis: 3. Capitalist excess, gentlemanly atavism: Thackeray's devils in
his early sketches; 4. Pendennis's stasis and Thackeray's professional
sensibilities; Part III. Styles of Stillness and Motion: Charles Dickens's
Lower-Class Descriptions: 5. Sketches by Boz: narrative form and market
culture; 6. Narrating stasis, describing reform: Nicholas Nickleby; Part
IV. Elizabeth Gaskell's Individualism, from 'Sketches among the Poor' to
Cranford: 7. 'Leave me, leave me to repose': Gaskell's descriptive
individualism; 8. Cranford's individualistic style; Conclusion: 'nothing
democratic': intelligence, abstraction, and avant-garde plotlessness;
Notes; Bibliography; Index.