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Tag: Victorian Novel

263. (Marlon James)

Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women is, like, A Brief History of Seven Killings, a book about plotting and … More

epic, Homer, Marlon James, Post-Colonial Literature, the novel, Victorian Novel

254. (William Makepeace Thackeray)

Thackeray’s Vanity Fair doubles that charge: the novel is braced by a simultaneous awareness of Regency and Victorian foibles, of … More

Thackeray, the novel, Victorian, Victorian Novel

251. (William Makepeace Thackeray)

Vanity Fair asks that we accept the affection that the novelist-narrator feels for the creatures of the Fair, animated as … More

Thackeray, the novel, Vanity Fair, Victorian Novel

158. (George Eliot)

Six, and possibly seven, models were available for the realist novel in the nineteenth century. First, the novel of social … More

American Literature, Dickens, George Eliot, Realism, the Historical Novel, the novel, Victorian Novel

150. (Cao Xueqin)

This morning, I deleted, for the first time, one of the posts on this blog, the most recent, on Marguerite … More

Marguerite Yourcencar, Proust, Realism, The Story of the Stone, Victorian Novel
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