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    My Victorian novel : critical essays in the personal voice / edited and with an introduction by Annette R. Federico ; foreword by Jane Tompkins.

    • Title:My Victorian novel : critical essays in the personal voice / edited and with an introduction by Annette R. Federico ; foreword by Jane Tompkins.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Federico, Annette, 1960- editor, writer of introduction.
      Tompkins, Jane P., writer of foreword.
    • Published/Created:Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2020]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
      Identity (Psychology)
      Interest (Psychology)
      Authors and readers.
      Books and reading.
      Literature--Psychology.
    • Description:xiii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    • Summary:"The previously unpublished essays collected here are by literary scholars who have dedicated their lives to reading and studying nineteenth-century British fiction and the Victorian world. Each writes about a novel that has acquired personal relevance to them--a work that has become entwined with their own story, or that remains elusive or compelling for reasons hard to explain"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780826222077 hardcover
      0826222072 hardcover
      9780826274434 electronic book
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. One Identifying as a Reader Andrea Kaston Tange / Charlotte Bronte
      ch. Two Mourning Glencora Deborah Denenholz Morse / Anthony Trollope
      ch. Three Skeptical Education Terrance Riley / Arthur Conan Doyle
      ch. Four Victorian Fable-Lands So Young Park / William Makepeace Thackeray
      ch. Five "What do I think of glory?" Beverley Park Rilett / George Eliot
      ch. Six Unhinged Ellen Rosenman / George Eliot
      ch. Seven Words Like Violence Sara Malton / Thomas Hardy
      ch. Eight Stock Exchanges Jonathan Farina / William Makepeace Thackeray
      ch. Nine Ethics of Place Mary-Catherine Harrison / Elizabeth Gaskell
      ch. Ten What Esther Thinks about Sex Catherine Robson / Charles Dickens
      ch. Eleven Liking David Copperfield Michael J. Flynn / Charles Dickens
      ch. Twelve Endless Circling, Perpetual Beginning Tom Ue / George Gissing
      ch. Thirteen Let to a Single Gentleman Lillian Nayder / Charles Dickens
      ch. Fourteen Bedtime Reading Narin Hassan / Bram Stoker
      ch. Fifteen Hand of Fate Annette R. Federico / Emily Bronte.
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