Meckier, Jerome.

Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction : Dickens, Realism, and Revaluation. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (324 pages)

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ONE: The Victorian "Multiverse": Bleak House -- TWO: The Cant of Reform: The Warden -- THREE: Mutual Recrimination: Hard Times -- FOUR: An Ultra-Dickensian Novel: The Woman in White -- FIVE: Undoing by Outdoing Continued: Great Expectations -- SIX: Inimitability Regained: The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- SEVEN: "That Arduous Invention": Middlemarch -- EIGHT: Conclusions: Realism, Revaluation, and Realignment -- NOTES -- INDEX.

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Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Literary quarrels -- Great Britain.


Electronic books.

PR878.R4.M4 1987eb

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