Nineteenth Century Novel A Critical Reader

Most undergraduate literature courses begin with a compulsory survey course on the novel. The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader fills a real gap in the market as no other book provides such a comprehensive selection of contemporary and modern essays and reviews on the most important novels of the period. By bringing together a range of material written across two centuries, it offers an insight into the changing reception of realist fiction and a discussion of how complex debates about the meaning and function of realism informed and shaped the kind of fiction that was written in the nineteenth century. The novels discussed are: Northanger Abbey , Jane Eyre , Dombey and Son , Middlemarch , Far From the Madding Crowd , Germinal , Madame Bovary, The Woman in White , The Portrait of a Lady , The Awakening , Dracula , Heart of Darkness .Regan, Stephen is the author of 'Nineteenth Century Novel A Critical Reader' with ISBN 9780415238281 and ISBN 0415238285.