Barry V. Qualls

The Secular Pilgrims of Victorian Fiction

The Novel as Book of Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the attempts of four great Victorians to write what amounted to latter-day 'Pilgrim's Progresses'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780521272018
• ISBN-10: 0521272017
• Artikelnr.: 27065238

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Note on texts and abbreviations
Introduction: The WORD made novel
1. Carlyle in 'Doubting Castle'
2. The terrible beauty of Charlotte Brontë's 'natural supernaturalism'
3. Transmutations of Dickens' emblematic art
4. Speaking through parable: George Eliot
Conclusion: the novel as book of life
Notes
Index.