| From Sketch to Novel: The Development of Victorian Fiction Contributor(s): Garcha, Amanpal (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521513588 ISBN-13: 9780521513586 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: Demonstrates the far-reaching effects of the sketches of Thackeray, Dickens and Gaskell on the Victorian novel. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.809 |
| LCCN: 2009022353 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 294 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When William Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell began their writing careers in the 1830s, they chose to write literary sketches, adopting a popular short form that emphasized description and essayistic analysis rather than storytelling. In this unusual study of a previously neglected literary form, Amanpal Garcha shows how the literary sketch influenced these authors' careers, transformed the marketplace for fiction and led to the development of some of the Victorian novel's key formal and ideological elements. |