Modes Of Production Of Victorian Novels

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Modes Of Production Of Victorian Novels

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Author : N. N. Feltes
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1989-05-15

Modes Of Production Of Victorian Novels written by N. N. Feltes and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-05-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

In this sophisticated application of modern Marxist thought, N. N. Feltes demonstrates the determining influence of nineteenth-century publishing practices on the Victorian novel. His dialectical analysis leads to a comprehensive explanation of the development of capitalist novel production into the twentieth century. Feltes focuses on five English novels: Dickens's Pickwick Papers, Thackeray's Henry Esmond, Eliot's Middlemarch, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Forster's Howards End. Published at approximately twenty year intervals between 1836 and 1920, they each represent a different first-publication format: part-issue, three-volume, bimonthly, magazine-serial, and single-volume. Drawing on publishing, economic, and literary history, Feltes offers a broad, synthetic explanation of the relationship between the production and format of each novel, and the way in which these determine, in the last instance, the ideology of the text. Modes of Production in Victorian Novels provides a Marxist structuralist analysis of historical events and practices described elsewhere only empirically, and traces their relationship to literary texts which have been analyzed only idealistically, thus setting these familiar works firmly and perhaps permanently into a framework of historic materialism.

Making Of The Victorian Novelist

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Author : Bradley Deane
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-15

Making Of The Victorian Novelist written by Bradley Deane and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Literary Collections categories.

This book examines a sequence of crises in nineteenth-century print culture and offers an original narrative of what it meant to be a Victorian novelist. Easily dismissed at the beginning of the century as hacks who pandered to the ignorant or indolent, novelists by the end of Victoria's reign could be esteemed among the greatest of artists. Between these extremes stretches a century of ideological contention between alternative representations of authorship. Deane brings new attention in his account to the trends in publishing and the expanding market surrounding Victorian literature, such as the new modes of production, arguments over copyright legislation, and revisions of the criteria of periodical criticism. Combining literary sociology and close readings, The Making of the Victorian Novelist offers an innovative history of the material pressures and rhetorical struggles that produced - and ultimately shattered - the Victorians' understanding of their great novelists.

Literary Capital And The Late Victorian Novel

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Author : Norman N. Feltes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993

Literary Capital And The Late Victorian Novel written by Norman N. Feltes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.

Literary Capital and the Late Victorian Novel analyses novel production in its broadest historical sense in the 1880s and 1890s. Seeing the shift in these decades to be from a petty-commodity literary mode of production to a capitalist literary mode of production, N.N. Feltes redefines publishing as literary capital and then explores the implications of this change for the novel.

The Victorian Novel

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Author : Francis O'Gorman
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15

The Victorian Novel written by Francis O'Gorman and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

The Making Of The Victorian Novelist

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Author : Bradley J. Deane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

The Making Of The Victorian Novelist written by Bradley J. Deane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.

The story of authorship in the nineteenth century is the story of how authorship itself came to eclipse other ways of understanding literature's cultural value and social function. This dissertation examines a series of crises in nineteenth-century print culture in order to offer an original narrative of what it meant---and what it could have meant---to be a Victorian novelist. The central argument of the project is that there is a logic to the changing perception of novelists' labor over the course of the century, but that this logic is not, as intellectual historians have tended to suggest, internal to the representations of authorship themselves. Rather than restricting its explanations to an abstracted intellectual tradition, the narrative offered here is structured around four watershed debates over the practices of publishing and circulating literature. The occasions of these ideological confrontations included new modes of production, transformations in copyright legislation, and revisions of the criteria of periodical criticism, but all are linked by an overriding concern with the staggering expansion of the literary industry. The emergence of a mass market for print proved to be the most influential of the many material developments in Victorian print culture; it polarized opinions about cultural production and determined the conflict, if not always the content, of notions of authorship. And since fiction was transformed more than other literary modes by the burgeoning market, the social status of novelists across the nineteenth century was both more mercurial and more controversial than that of writers in any other genre. Through readings of symptomatic novels by Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James, I show that the influence of the growing public remains indelibly stamped on the themes and forms of Victorian fiction.

The Oxford Handbook Of The Victorian Novel

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Author : Lisa Rodensky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Release Date : 2013-07-11

The Oxford Handbook Of The Victorian Novel written by Lisa Rodensky and has been published by Oxford University Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-11 with History categories.

The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked.

Reading Victorian Fiction

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Author : Andrew Blake
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-03

Reading Victorian Fiction written by Andrew Blake and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-03 with Fiction categories.

A study of the interrelationship of the Victorian novel with other forms of writings, arguing that the whole literary culture was concerned with the production of Victorian values, including novels, an active part in the compromise between aristocratic and middle class cultures in this period.

Technologies Of Power In The Victorian Period

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Author : John Condon Murray
language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
Release Date : 2010

Technologies Of Power In The Victorian Period written by John Condon Murray and has been published by Cambria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This study examines the ways in which technological changes initiated during the Victorian period have led to the diminution of speech as a mode of critique. Much in the same ways that speech had been used to affirm intersubjectivity, print culture conditioned readers to accept uni-directional exchange of values and interests. It enabled the creation of a community of readers who would be responsive to the expansion of a industry and the emergence of a technical language and culture, a culture that precedes and predicts post-modern society. The purpose of this study is to employ Charlotte Brontë's Shirley (1849), Charles Dickens's Hard Times (1854), and George Eliot's Felix Holt (1866) to evidence how the growth of capitalist production and the development of new technologies of industry within the early- to mid-Victorian periods inspired the prioritization of the printed word over oratory and speech as a means for fulfilling the linguistic power exchanges found common in spoken discourse. Inventions such as Friedrich Gottlob Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer's high-speed printing press enabled mass production and low-cost readership among the working class, who experienced literacy on multiple levels: to educate themselves, to experience leisure and diversion, to confirm their religious beliefs, and to improve their labor skills. Much in the same ways that speech had been used to affirm intersubjectivity, print culture conditioned readers to accept uni-directional exchange of values and interests that would create a community of readers who would be responsive to the expansion of a new technical society and would eventually perform the routines of mechanized labor. This book employs Victorian novelists such as Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot to address representations of speech in fictional discourse. Critics like Nancy Armstrong and Garrett Stewart have considered these representations without addressing the ways in which print culture engendered and valued new forms of speech, forms which might re-engage critique of the human condition. More recent publications like The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics, by John Plotz, do not respond to the ways in which individuals use the collective voice of crowd formations to redefine and resituate their subjective identities. This book serves to fill this gap in Victorian studies. Victorian novels are not, of course, pure representations of Victorian reality. However, many working-class Victorians engaged texts as authentic representations of society. How working-class readers then reconstructed their personal narratives in actuality suggests the affects of social assimilation upon subjective identity and advances the claim that Victorian novels did not provide solutions to the social and economic maladies they reported. Rather, they contextualized social and cultural problems without recognizing the dangers of how the decontextualized imagination of the reader locates placement within the same ontological and epistemological assumptions. Technologies of Power in the Victorian Period is an informative study that will appeal to members of academic groups such as the British Women's Writer's Association and the North American Victorian Association. Although the book bears relevance to scholars and students of Victorian studies, it will also serve as a point of reference for curious readers engaged in studies of the effects of industrial technologies on language acquisition and dissemination during the nineteenth century.

The Rise And Fall Of The Victorian Three Volume Novel

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Author : Troy J. Bassett
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-02-07

The Rise And Fall Of The Victorian Three Volume Novel written by Troy J. Bassett and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-07 with Literary Criticism categories.

Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott’s popular novels in the 1820s, the three-volume novel became the standard format for new fiction aimed at middle-class audiences through the support of circulating libraries. Following a quantitative analysis examining who wrote and published these novels, the book investigates the success of publisher Richard Bentley in producing three-volume novels, the experiences of the W. H. Smith circulating library in distributing them, the difficulties of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and George Moore in writing them, and the resistance of new publishers such as Arrowsmith and Unwin to publishing them. Rather than faltering, the three-volume novel stubbornly endured until its abandonment in the 1890s.

The Cambridge Companion To The Victorian Novel

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Author : Deirdre David
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001

The Cambridge Companion To The Victorian Novel written by Deirdre David and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.

In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, first published in 2000, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot and other canonical writers, as well as that of such writers as Olive Schreiner, Wilkie Collins and H. Rider Haggard, whose work has recently attracted new attention from scholars and students. The collection combines the literary study of the novel as a form with analysis of the material aspects of its readership and production, and a series of thematic and contextual perspectives that examine Victorian fiction in the light of social and cultural concerns relevant both to the period itself and to the direction of current literary and cultural studies. Contributors engage with topics such as industrial culture, religion and science and the broader issues of the politics of gender, sexuality and race. The Companion includes a chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading.