Readers 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.
Acclaim for Julia Prewitt Brown's Jane Austen's Novels: Social
Change and Literary Form:
"The book opens up a lot of new and suggestive ways of appreciating
just how much Jane Austen made out of the delights,
complexities, and ordeals of courtship and its changing modes
and practices." — The New York Times Book Review
"This is a highly intelligent book, full of good things—a clever
book which will provoke thought."
—The Times Literary Supplement, London
"This is an important book and provides a valuable'corrective to
the many Austen studies that consider Jane Austen's subjects
unworthy of her genius." —The Yale Review
"Mrs. Brown's superb critical intelligence and analyses sustain
her commonsensical yet penetrating insight into Austen's understanding of social structure and social change. The result is a book which Jane Austen herself might respect."
—Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Reference, Literary Criticism

137 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1986

Reviews

[Richie Kercenna · Rating 2 out of 5]

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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