The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Serialization

by David Payne

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An ambitious weave of ideological, literary, and commodity history, The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot sacralized Victorian modernity in two contradictory ways: by incarnating their moment as one of transcendent development, and by reenacting bloody rituals from a fading Protestant past. Both the magnitude and the brevity of their success make these works exemplary for our own era, caught...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1349524670

ISBN13:9781349524679

Release Date:January 2005

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:206 Pages

Weight:0.64 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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