Литературоведение, литературная критика, история литературы
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Ваша оценкаVictorian novels remain enormously popular today: some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught at all levels. These works have also attracted a great deal of critical attention, with much current scholarship examining the novel in relation to its historical, political, and cultural contexts. This reference book is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel, its background, and its legacy. Each chapter...
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- innashpitzberg7 января 2012 г.Читать далее
The huge international popularity of Scott’s Waverley novels and the fame of their author, lasting from his lifetime through the early twentieth century, inaugurated a recognizably “Victorian” profile of the successful novelist: voluminous output, vast but unstable profits, the dignity of a civic monument. Any account of the nineteenth-century novel (and not only in Great Britain) must recognize Scott’s overwhelming ubiquity and influence, from the cultural constitution of “literature,” including the social status of the novel and the author, through epochal innovations in subject matter and technique, to the material conditions of publishing and marketing.
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Austen’s incomparably subtle technique was not lost, all the same, on a range of Victorian writers, including the exponents of provincial life. They learned much from her: the ironical control of narrative via free indirect discourse, the discrimination of character through speech and manners, the lucid assumption of a social habitus from the inside.
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“Scott and Miss Austen” constitute a virtual, archetypal totality, larger than their individual achievements in domestic realism or historical romance—larger, perhaps, than the achievement of anyone who came later. Together they form the “complementary antithesis” that was needed to bring the novel to its dialectical completion. They won the empire that the Victorians merely colonized.
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