Victorian Nonfiction Prose: A Companion

Victorian Nonfiction Prose: A Companion

by Kathy Rees
Victorian Nonfiction Prose: A Companion

Victorian Nonfiction Prose: A Companion

by Kathy Rees

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Overview

The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers and reviewers, to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these works offer fundamental, often surprising insights into Victorian society. Why, for example, did the innocuously titled Essays and Reviews (1860) trigger public outrage? How did Eliza Lynn Linton become the first salaried woman journalist in England? What is "table-talk"?

Critical approaches to Victorian prose have long focused on a few canonical writers. Recent scholarship has recognized a wide diversity of practitioners, forms and modes of dissemination. Presented in accessible A-Z format, this literary companion reinstates nonfiction as a principal vehicle of knowledge and debate in Victorian Britain.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476681245
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 12/30/2022
Series: McFarland Companions to 19th Century Literature
Pages: 305
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.62(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Kathy Rees has written several articles and book chapters on topics relating to life-writing, allusion and intertextuality, and Victorian transnational publishing. She lives in Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments delete
Preface delete
Textual Notes delete
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Introduction delete
Alphabetical List of Works Discussed delete
Victorian Nonfiction Prose: A Companion delete
Appendix A: Timeline of Prose Texts
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Appendix B: Glossary delete
Works Cited delete
Index
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