Title Hidden rivalries in Victorian fiction : Dickens, realism, and revaluation / Jerome Meckier.

Publication Info.	Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
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Contents	Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ONE: The Victorian ""Multiverse"": Bleak House; TWO: The Cant of Reform: The Warden; THREE: Mutual Recrimination: Hard Times; FOUR: An Ultra-Dickensian Novel: The Woman in White; FIVE: Undoing by Outdoing Continued: Great Expectations; SIX: Inimitability Regained: The Mystery of Edwin Drood; SEVEN: ""That Arduous Invention"": Middlemarch; EIGHT: Conclusions: Realism, Revaluation, and Realignment; NOTES; INDEX.
Summary	Victorian fiction has been read and analyzed from a wide range of perspectives in the past century. But how did the novelists themselves read and respond to each other's creations when they first appeared? Jerome Meckier answers that intriguing question in this ground-breaking study of what he terms the Victorian realism wars. Meckier argues that nineteenth-century British fiction should be seen as a network of intersecting reactions and counteractions in which the novelists rethought and rewrote each other's novels as a way of enhancing their own credibility. In an increasingly relative world
Subject	Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. (OCoLC)fst00028294
	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Literary quarrels -- Great Britain.
	Realism in literature.
	Social problems in literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
	English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817
	Literary quarrels. (OCoLC)fst00999948
	Realism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01091237
	Social problems in literature. (OCoLC)fst01122806
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form:	Print version: Meckier, Jerome. Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction : Dickens, Realism, and Revaluation. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813116228
ISBN	9780813159591 (electronic bk.)
	0813159598 (electronic bk.)

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