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My Victorian novel : critical essays in the personal voice by Annette R. Federico, with a foreword by Jane Tompkins is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>The previously unpublished essays collected here are by literary scholars who have dedicated their lives to reading and studying nineteenth-century British fiction and the Victorian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.These are essays in the original sense of the word, attempts: individual and experiential approaches to literary works that have subjective meanings beyond social facts. By reflecting on their own histories with novels taught, studied, researched, and re-experienced in different contexts over many years, the contributors reveal how an aesthetic object comes to inhabit our critical, pedagogical, and personal lives.By inviting scholars to share their experiences with a favorite novel without the pressure of an analytical agenda, the sociable essays in My Victorian Novel seek to restore some vitality to the act of literary criticism, and encourage other scholars to talk about the importance of reading in their lives and the stories that have enchanted and transformed them.The novels in this collection includ

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Author

Annette R. Federico, with a foreword by Jane Tompkins

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826222077

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities