Stephen Knight

G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction

The Man Who Outsold Dickens

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Produktbeschreibung

George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, yet today remains almost unknown in the canon of English Literature. The Man Who Outsold Dickens reestablishes Reynolds as a major figure of nineteenth-century fiction and an author of European range.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781138579842
• ISBN-10: 113857984X
• Artikelnr.: 55337519

Autorenporträt

Stephen Knight (M.A., Oxford, Ph.D. Sydney, both in English Literature) taught at universities in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Leicester, and Cardiff, and is an honorary professor at Melbourne. He has written many articles and reviews, and this is his twentieth book: they include several on crime fiction, the prize-winning Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography (2003) and recently The Politics of Myth (2015); The Mysteries of the Cities (2012) has a chapter on Reynolds' The Mysteries of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Reynolds and His Novels
2. Reynold's Reception
3. Approaching Reynolds' Fiction
Chapter 1 Towards London and the Mysteries
1. First Moves in Fiction
2. Pickwick Abroad
3. Alfred de Rosann
4. Grace Darling
5. Robert Macaire
6. The Steam-Packet
7. The Drunkard's Tale
8. Master Timothy's Bookcase
Chapter 2 The Mysteries of London
Section 1: Volumes 1-2: The Markhams, Self-Managing Women, The Resurrection
Man, and Other Criminals
1. Introduction
2. Major Male Figures
3. Major Female Figures
4. Minor Characters, Noble, Troubled, and Vicious
5. Criminals Great and Small
6. Socio-Political Commentary
Section 2 A: Volumes 3-4: Chapters 1-119, 1826-7: Aristocratic Families,
Insurgent Women, Contemporary Politics
2.A.1 Aristocratic Interactions
2.A.2 The Master Criminal
2.A.3 Comic Non-Gentry
2.A.4 Corrupt Non-Gentry, and Some Decent Relatives
2.A.5 Minor Figures, Respectable and Criminal
Section 2 B: Volume 4: Chapters 120-209, 1846-7: Modern Gentry,
Bourgeoisie, Seductresses, and Criminals.
2.B.1 The Gentry in the Present
2.B 2 Modern Seductresses
2.B.3 New Aristocratic Dramas
2.B.4 Modern Criminals
2.B.5 Satirical and Political Commentary
Section 3 The Mysteries of London, Series 3 and 4
3.1 Series 3, Volume 5: Thomas Miller and the Ordinary People of London
3.2 Series 4, volume 6: Edward Blanchard and Aristocratic Sentimentality
Chapter 3 Mysteries Historicized: The Days of Hogarth and The Mysteries of
the Court of London
Section 1: The Parricide: Revisiting the Past in Fiction
Section 2: The Days of Hogarth: Revisiting Past London
2.1 Mystery and History
2.2 Hogarth's Four Narrative Sequences
2.3 Jem Ruffles the Hero
2.4 Other New Characters
2.5 Century-Old London
2.6 After Reynolds and Hogarth
Section 3: The Mysteries of the Court of London, volumes 1-2: The Prince
Regent and Other Villains
3.1 Royalty
3.2 Aristocracy
3.3 Other Social Figures
3.4 Criminals
3.5 Social and Political Comment
Section 4 The Mysteries of the Court of London, volumes 3-4: Venetia
Trelawney Versus the Prince and Other Males
4.1 Royalty
4.2 Aristocratic Women
4.3 Aristocratic Men
4.4 Other Characters
4.5 Social and Urban Comment
Section 5 The Mysteries of the Court of London, volumes 5-6: Aristocrats:
Female Villainy and Secondary Males
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The House of Saxondale
5.3 The House of Eagledean
5.4 Other Characters
5.5 Final Events
5.6 Satire and Social Reference
Section 6 The Mysteries of the Court of London, volumes 7-8: Aristocrats:
Disputed Inheritance and Young Love
6.1 The Duke and His Problems
6.2 Other Characters in the Main Plot
6.3 Other Plot Strands
6.4 The Murder Mystery Resolved
6.5 Social and Political Commentary
Chapter 4 Lower-Class Heroines and Heroes of the 1850s
1. The Seamstress: A Domestic Tale: Distress and Tragedy
2. Mary Price, or The Memoirs of a Servant-Maid: Her Many Connections
3. Joseph Wilmot, or The Memoirs of a Man-Servant: Masculine Service,
Travel, and Inheritance
4. Rosa Lambert, or The Memoirs of an Unfortunate Woman: Independence
and Danger
5. Ellen Percy, or The Memoirs of an Actress: Commitment -- Personal,
Professional, and Amicable
6. The Young Duchess, or The Memoirs of a Woman of Quality: Beyond the
World of Ellen Percy
7. The Soldier's Wife: The Working Class in Uniform
8. May Middleton, or The History of a Fortune: Conventional Approaches
9. Agnes, or Beauty and Pleasure: Women of All Kinds
Chapter 5 Fantasy History, Historical Fiction, International Narratives
Section 1 Fantasy History
1. Faust, A Romance of the Secret Tribunals
1.2 Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf, A Romance
1.3 The Coral Island, or The Hereditary Curse
1.4 The Necromancer, A Romance
Section 2 Historical Fiction
2.1 Pope Joan, or The Female Pontiff
2.2 Kenneth, A Romance of the Highlands
2.3 The Massacre of Glencoe, A Historical Tale
2.4 The Rye House Plot, or Ruth the Conspirator's Daughter
2.5 Margaret, or The Discarded Queen
2.6 Canonbury House, or The Queen's Prophecy
2.7 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Section 3 International Narratives
3.1 The Bronze Statue, or The Virgin's Kiss
3.2 Omar, A Tale of the Crimean War
3.3 The Loves of the Harem, A Romance of Constantinople
3.4 Leila, or The Star of Mingrelia
3.5 The Empress Eugénie's Boudoir
3.6 Conclusion