The Experimental Impulse in George Meredith's Fiction

by Richard C. Stevenson

Overview

As a writer of Victorian fiction, Meredith (1828-1909) is important and interesting today for how he wrote against or beyond the novelistic tradition and that compendium of attitudes and values we associate with Victorian culture, declares Stevenson (English, U. of Oregon). He focuses on those novels that most clearly demonstrate the author's experimental and transgressive impulse, as expressed in his treatment of controversial contemporary themes and his representation of consciousness. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838758830
Publisher:	Bucknell University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	332 KB

About the Author

Richard Stevenson is Professor of English at the University of Oregon, where he teaches courses in the British novel.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	9
	Introduction	13
1	An Essay on Comedy: Theorizing Tradition and Innovation	24
2	The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: Challenges to Patriarchy and the Boundaries of Genre	38
3	The Adventures of Harry Richmond and the Disintegration of Identity	63
4	The Egoist: The Female Hero as Agent of Exposure	87
5	One of Our Conquerors: The Anatomy of a Marriage	117
6	Lord Ormont and His Aminta: Escape from Patriarchy and the Problem of Narrative Dissonance	148
7	The Amazing Marriage and the Construction of Feminine Identity	167
	Conclusion: George Meredith in the Twentieth Century and After	189
	Notes	203
	Bibliography	225
	Index	234