Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel Contributor(s): Valdez, Jessica R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474474349 ISBN-13: 9781474474344 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 224 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Explores how nineteenth-century novels analysed the formal and social workings of news
This book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions. Each chapter addresses a different narrative modality and its relationship to the news: Charles Dickens interrogates the distinctions between fictional and journalistic storytelling, while Anthony Trollope explores novelistic bildung in serial form; the sensation novels of Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon locate melodrama in realist discourses, whereas Anglo-Jewish writer Israel Zangwill represents a hybrid minority experience. At the core of these metaphors and narrative forms is a theorisation of the newspaper's influence on society. |