Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction: Dickens, Realism, and Revaluation

by Jerome Meckier

Book Overview

" 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813116228
• ISBN13: 9780813116228
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher