A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

by Julia Prewitt Brown

A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth-Century English Novel provides a window on the institutions that are the very fabric of Victorian fiction: the class and educational systems, the Church of England, marriage, politics. Using examples drawn from the works of Hardy, Dickens, Eliot, Austen, Thackeray, Brontë, and Trollope, Harvard University teacher Julia Prewitt Brown profoundly enriches our reading and deepens our understanding of many of the world's beloved novels.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Reference, Literary Criticism

Paperback

First published August 1, 1986

Reviews

[Richie Kercenna]

This book can help if you're already familiar with 19th century literature, and are only looking for a means to order your own ideas on the subject, and explore one or two new details. I can't say it's a brilliant work, for it did not contribute much that I did not know already. Useful only in that it can refresh your memory in regard to long forgotten books.

[Constantine]

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