Hidden rivalries in Victorian fiction : Dickens, realism, and revaluation

Label

Hidden rivalries in Victorian fiction : Dickens, realism, and revaluation

Title remainder

Dickens, realism, and revaluation

Statement of responsibility

Jerome Meckier

Creator

• Meckier, Jerome

Subject

• Social problems in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Realism in literature
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Literary quarrels -- Great Britain

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

Victorian fiction has been read and analyzed from a wide range of perspectives in the past century. But how did the novelists themselves read and respond to each other's creations when they first appeared? Jerome Meckier answers that intriguing question in this ground-breaking study of what he terms the Victorian realism wars. Meckier argues that nineteenth-century British fiction should be seen as a network of intersecting reactions and counteractions in which the novelists rethought and rewrote each other's novels as a way of enhancing their own credibility. In an increasingly relative world,

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

• 823.80912
• 823/.8/0912

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR878.R4 M4 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries