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Sunday, February 03, 2008

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Reading the Nineteenth-century Novel: Austen to Eliot by Alison Case and Harry Shaw is a newly published textbook by Blackwell Publishing in its series Reading the Novel. Of course between Austen and Eliot we can find some Brontës:
Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Austen to Eliot
By: Alison Case (Williams College) and Harry Shaw (Cornell University)

ISBN: 9780631231431
Publication Dates: USA: Jan 2008 /Rest of World: Dec 2007 /Australia: Feb 2008
Format: 229 x 152 mm , 6 x 9 in
Details:232 pages

This text offers students and teachers a close analysis of nineteenth-century novels by ten major authors: Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Brontë sisters.

* Examines a wide range of nineteenth-century novels - Persuasion, Middlemarch, The Heart of Midlothian, Vanity Fair, Mary Barton, Bleak House, The Warden, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre
* Explores significant theoretical approaches such as Foucauldian, Postcolonial, Bakhtinian, and feminist criticism
* Employs an "appreciative" model of criticism, sparking a renewed interest in engaging with Victorian aesthetics on its own terms
* Offers an overview of the social, economic, and political change that influenced the fiction of the time
Chapter 3 explores Wuthering Heights and Chapter 4 Jane Eyre.

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