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This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victoriannovel. Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historicalreligious and bibliographic writing. Features short biographies of over fortyVictorian authors including Wilkie Collins Charles Dickens George Eliot andRobert Louis Stevenson. Offers close readings of over 30 key texts among themCharlotte Brontes Jane Eyre 1847 and Bram Stokers Dracula 1897 aswell as key presences such as John Bunyans Pilgrims Progress Pt 1 1676Pt 2 1684. Also covers topics such as colonialism scientific speculationthe psychic and the supernatural and working class reading. «
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