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From the vantage point of the twenty-first century, this book offers a fresh look at the relation of the nineteenth-century writer to the reader. Moving beyond the revolutions in theory and criticism of the last several decades, Igor Webb offers a rereading of the development of the nineteenth-century English novel. Close readings shed new light on the history of the reading of Mary Barton; on the impact of unprecedented social realities on Charles Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit; and on how we might today enter the far more religious world of the nineteenth century through fresh approaches to Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
Acknowledgments vii
Preliminary 1
1 Reading Mary Barton: The Writer and the Reader 11
2 Charles Dickens in America: The Writer and Reality 41
3 Narrative and the Problem of Evil: The Writer and Mortality 107
Toward a Conclusion 145
Notes 163
References 179
Index 185
Overview
From the vantage point of the twenty-first century, this book offers a fresh look at the relation of the nineteenth-century writer to the reader. Moving beyond the revolutions in theory and criticism of the last several decades, Igor Webb offers a rereading of the development of the nineteenth-century English novel. Close readings shed new light on the history of the reading of Mary Barton; on the impact of unprecedented social realities on Charles Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit; and on how we might today enter the ...