Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Jane Austen, Emma	Dorothea Meihuizen	v, 41 p. ; 22 cm	OL11426008W
Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel	Miriam L. Wallace	Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel engages ongoing debates on subject formation and rights discourse through the so-called "English Jacobin" novels. Ostensibly celebrating the un…	OL13650756W
Marginality in the contemporary British novel	Nicola Allen	"The 'Marginal' as a concept has become an integral part of the British novel as it stands at the turn of the century. Both popular and literary fiction since the mid-1970s has seen an increasing emp…	OL13683932W
Rereading Conrad	Daniel R. Schwarz	"Rereading Conrad sheds new light on an author who has spoken to readers for over a century. Schwarz's essays take account of recent developments in theory and cultural studies, including postcolonia…	OL14943592W
The Bronte Sisters (Agnes Grey / Jane Eyre / Professor / Tenant of Wildfell Hall / Villete / Wuther…	Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Anne Brontë	Contains: Agnes Grey Jane Eyre Professor Tenant of Wildfell Hall Villette [Wuthering Heights](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21177W)	OL14948692W
Satire in an age of realism	Aaron Matz	"As nineteenth-century realism became more and more intrepid in its pursuit of describing and depicting everyday life, it blurred irrevocably into the caustic and severe mode of literature better nam…	OL15632224W
Sensation and sublimation in Charles Dickens	Gordon, John	"My book sets out to explore three crucial stages in Dickens' ongoing voyage of discovery into what has been called the "hidden springs" of his fiction. The three novels under examination are Oliver …	OL16173795W
The Cambridge companion to the Victorian novel	Deirdre David	In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, a series of specially commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, and other canonical writers, as well as th…	OL17095517W
Beautiful boredom	Lee Anna Maynard	"Boredom in these works is an important means through which female characters are able to achieve a greater sense of self-awareness. The author examines both the deleterious and restorative aspects o…	OL18707602W
Hardy's influence on the modern novel	Peter J. Casagrande	xx, 247 p. ; 23 cm	OL4110398W
The rise of the woman novelist	Jane Spencer	"Feminist studies of women's writing have tended to concentrate on writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. This book, which examines women novelists from Aphra Behn to Fanny Burney, is intended to re…	OL4302534W
The Victorian novel	Ian P. Watt	A collection of essays which describes the reading audience, publication methods, and literary style of the Victorian novel and provides a critical analysis of the period's major fiction writers.	OL505966W
The anthology and the rise of the novel	Leah Price	The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel brings together two traditionally antagonistic fields, book history and narrative theory, to challenge established theories of 'the rise of the novel'. Leah Pr…	OL53045W
Domesticity, imperialism, and emigration in the Victorian novel	Diana C. Archibald	"During the nineteenth century, as millions of British citizens left for the New Worlds, hearth and home were physically moved from the heart of the empire to its very outskirts. In Domesticity, Impe…	OL5957297W
Literature and religion in mid-Victorian England	Carolyn Oulton,Carolyn W. de la L'Oulton	"This book places Dickens and Wilkie Collins against such important figures as John Henry Newman and George Eliot in their response to the religious crisis of mid-nineteenth century England. In foreg…	OL5962584W
Gothic & Gender	Donna Heiland	Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Heiland's Gothic and Gender offers a historically in…	OL6032200W
The flirt's tragedy	Richard A. Kaye	"In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and W. M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquette-doubles. In the writing of George Eliot …	OL6208977W
CliffsNotes Austen's Pride and Prejudice	Marie Kalil	The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in the series also featu…	OL7796770W
Time is of the essence	Murphy, Patricia	"In Time Is of the Essence, Patricia Murphy argues that the Victorian debate on the Woman Question was informed by a crucial but as yet unexplored element at the fin de siecle: the cultural construct…	OL7797946W
Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction	Angela Kingston	This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries. Focusing on Wilde’s relationships with many of these writers, Kings…	OL8770768W