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"This guide to the canon of Victorian literature covers 61 novels by authors from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. Brief critical essays describe what each book is about and argue for its cultural, historical and literary importance. Literary canons remain a subject of debate but critics, readers and students continue to find them useful as overviews of the great works within a given period or culture. The Victorian canon is particularly rich with splendid novels that educate, enlighten and entertain."-- Provided by publisher

Title The Victorian bookshelf : an introduction to 61 essential novels / Jess Nevins.
Publisher Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Creation Date 2016
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction
L'Assommoir
Barchester Towers
Barry Lyndon
Bleak House
The Charterhouse of Parma
Coningsby
The Count of Monte Cristo
Diana of the Crossways
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dracula
East Lynne
The Egoist
Emma
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
Heavenly Twins
Huckleberry Finn
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Invisible Man
Jane Eyre
Jude the Obscure
Kidnapped
Kim
Lady Audley's Secret
The Last Days of Pompeii
The Last of the Mohicans
Little Women
Lorna Doone
Madame Bovary
Marius the Epicurean
Mary Barton
Middlemarch
Les Misérables
Miss MarjoribanksMoby Dick
The Moonstone
Nana
New Grub Street
North and South
Pelham
Père Goriot
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Portrait of a Lady
Pride and Prejudice
The Red and the Black
Salammbô
The Scarlet Letter
She
Silas Marner
Sister Carrie
The Sorrows of Satan
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Three Musketeers
The Time Machine
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Under Two Flags
Vanity Fair
Waverley
The Way We Live Now
The Woman in White
Wuthering Heights
Appendix: Concepts
Index
Extent 1 online resource (274 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2016
National Library system number 997010721311405171
MARC RECORDS
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