Amanpal Garcha

From Sketch to Novel

The Development of Victorian Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 631g
• ISBN-13: 9780521513586
• ISBN-10: 0521513588
• Artikelnr.: 26204958

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction: From Sketch to Novel: 1. Modern
change and aestheticized stasis in the early nineteenth century; 2.
Plotless styles in novel history and theory; Part II. Journalism,
Modernity, and Stasis in The Paris Sketch Book and The History of
Pendennis: 3. Capitalist excess, gentlemanly atavism: Thackeray's devils in
his early sketches; 4. Pendennis's stasis and Thackeray's professional
sensibilities; Part III. Styles of Stillness and Motion: Charles Dickens's
Lower-Class Descriptions: 5. Sketches by Boz: narrative form and market
culture; 6. Narrating stasis, describing reform: Nicholas Nickleby; Part
IV. Elizabeth Gaskell's Individualism, from 'Sketches among the Poor' to
Cranford: 7. 'Leave me, leave me to repose': Gaskell's descriptive
individualism; 8. Cranford's individualistic style; Conclusion: 'nothing
democratic': intelligence, abstraction, and avant-garde plotlessness;
Notes; Bibliography; Index.