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RR 2005/195 A Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel Edited by Francis O'Gorman Blackwell Oxford and Maiden, MA 2005 xiii + 277 pp. ISBN: 1 4051 0319 1 (hardback); ISBN: 1 4051 0320 5 (paperback) £50/$64.95 (hardback); £15.99/$29.95 (paperback) Blackwell Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
Keywords English literature, Fiction, Literary criticism
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120510596300
In the words of its editor, Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds, this collection of essays aims to present a "sympathetic but searching" survey of the nineteenth century novel from a distinctively historicist perspective. The texts are seen, "as far as historical distance will allow", in relationship to, and interacting with, their own time. A year-by-year chronology of cultural and literary events from 1830 to the death of Victoria in 1901 frames the intention perfectly. A total of 12...