Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel

Name: Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel
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ISBN: 9780299119041

ISBN-10: 0299119041

ISBN-13: 9780299119041

Edition: 1988

Authors: Joseph J. Wiesenfarth

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Just what is it that relates Austen and Trollope, Bront#xEB; and Dickens to Eliot, James, Hardy, and Ford? How do novels like Pride and Prejudiceand Barchester Towersand novels like Wuthering Heightsand Great Expectationsbecome part of Middlemarch, T he Portrait of a Lady, Jude the Obscure, and Parade's End? For Joseph Wiesenfarth, the relationships and connections are bound up in what he calls Gothic Manners. His overarching argument is that the salient elements of two genres, that of the novel of manners and the new Gothic novel, come together and form a synthesis which accounts, in good part, for the greatness of #x1C;classical#x1D; English fictions. Building upon Bakhtinian premises,…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 9/15/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Joseph Wiesenfarth is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the editor of two collections of essays on Ford and the author of six books, including "Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.