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

by D. Payne

2021-01-05 02:00:08

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 mome... Read more
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 between the archaic gods of traditional religion and the still-mysterious ones of market society. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.51 X 0.63 in
Print pages206
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date May 23, 2005
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781403947741

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