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OverviewEnormous social changes during the Victorian era inspired some of the finest novels in the English language. In the final decades of the century, rigid application of gender rules and class hierarchies began to relax. Consciousness of the injustice of class- and gender-based discrimination was growing. Meanwhile, bias against nonwhite peoples was worsening. The British used scientific racism to justify their relentless expansion in Africa and Asia. Viewing Victorian literature through the lens of these social changes gives the modern reader a fresh way to interpret the novels and to appreciate their relevance to contemporary issues. Nineteenth-century novelists deployed realism, satire, and the bildungsroman to resist or support leading ideologies of their time, including the separate spheres doctrine and British supremacism. Each chapter is an elaboration of the author's university lectures about Victorian classics. The tone is scholarly yet conversational, directed to the undergraduate student as well as the general reader or Victoriaphile. The text presents concepts in interdisciplinary cultural studies, discusses the uses of genre for rhetorical and social purposes, and exposes paradoxes of the era. The coherent style, abundant examples, discussion questions, and literary glossary make this book a valuable supplement for readers of the Victorian novel. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jill FranksPublisher: McFarland & Co Inc Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.381kg ISBN: 9781476687261ISBN 10: 1476687269 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 12 August 2022 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Introduction—The Victorian Age: Progress and Paradox I. Wuthering Heights (1847) 1. Heathcliff’s Social Climbing 2. Masculine Privilege, Absent Mothers, Merging Lovers: Gender Roles and Love Relationships II. Jane Eyre (1847) 3. Judging People by Color, Physiognomy, and Phrenology 4. Wide Sargasso Sea—Dark Secrets of the Caribbean: Hatred, Murder, Madness III. Vanity Fair (1848) 5. Race and Empire 6. Aporia, Metafiction, and the Narrator IV. North and South (1854) 7. Roman Daughter and Milquetoast Father 8. Regional and Class Prejudice V. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) 9. London versus Paris: Is This a Competition? 10. Allegory and Personification 11. Law and Justice VI. Great Expectations (1861) 12. Little Pip’s Outsized Guilt 13. Jack Maggs—Magwitch Writes Back 14. Refining Fire and Doppelgänger Devils 15. Anti-Semitism, Casual Racism, and Pedagogy VII. Middlemarch (1871) 16. Angel of Destruction or Spacious Mind? 17. Mrs. Cadwallader, Busybody 18. What Is a Gentleman? 19. Dorothea and Lydgate’s Unrealized Potential VIII. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) 20. Bathsheba’s Feminism 21. The Role of the Rustics 22. Hardy’s Life and Loves IX. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) 23. Jekyll’s Downfall—Sadism or Repression? 24. Dr. Jekyll and Mary Reilly: Abuse, Trauma, and Gender X. Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) 25. Hardy’s Modernity and Cosmic Irony 26. Pagan versus Christian Values XI. The Odd Women (1893) 27. The Challenge of Writing a Novel of Ideas 28. The Skewed Income Scale: Intersections of Gender and Class Appendix A: Discussion Questions Appendix B: Glossary of Literary and Historical Terms Acknowledgments IndexReviews"""Drawing on history, literature, and intersectionality, Franks has written a book that functions as both an overview of major Victorian novels and an explication of how Victorian values shaped identity. ...recommended""--Choice ""Stemming from the unique moment of unprecedented online teaching during the pandemic, Franks' Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel grew out of her patient and comprehensive preparations, and her desire to give students clear, detailed frameworks for thinking about Victorian novels (and some of their more contemporary companion texts). This textbook that focuses on race, class, gender and genre does more than simply frame, however: it offers students, teachers, and lovers of all things Victorian many points of departure for further study, further analysis, and further thinking about these well-known works. In accessible prose and with palpable energy, professor Franks brings us into her classroom, so to speak, and reminds us why reading and interpreting these classic texts still produces crucial questions for us about society, ethics, and human relationships.""--Carrie Rohman, Ph.D., professor of English, Lafayette College ""Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel is a great teaching text. It provides undergraduates with literary and historical context and with models of how to do literary criticism. It is sure to be useful in the English literature classroom.""--Susie Steinbach, Hamline University" """Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel is a great teaching text. It provides undergraduates with literary and historical context and with models of how to do literary criticism. It is sure to be useful in the English literature classroom.""--Susie Steinbach, Hamline University ""Drawing on history, literature, and intersectionality, Franks has written a book that functions as both an overview of major Victorian novels and an explication of how Victorian values shaped identity. ...recommended""--Choice ""Stemming from the unique moment of unprecedented online teaching during the pandemic, Franks' Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel grew out of her patient and comprehensive preparations, and her desire to give students clear, detailed frameworks for thinking about Victorian novels (and some of their more contemporary companion texts). This textbook that focuses on race, class, gender and genre does more than simply frame, however: it offers students, teachers, and lovers of all things Victorian many points of departure for further study, further analysis, and further thinking about these well-known works. In accessible prose and with palpable energy, professor Franks brings us into her classroom, so to speak, and reminds us why reading and interpreting these classic texts still produces crucial questions for us about society, ethics, and human relationships.""--Carrie Rohman, Ph.D., professor of English, Lafayette College" Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel is a great teaching text. It provides undergraduates with literary and historical context and with models of how to do literary criticism. It is sure to be useful in the English literature classroom. --Susie Steinbach, Hamline University Author InformationJill Franks teaches English literature and film at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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