Satire in the Victorian novelRussell, Frances Theresa
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Satire in the Victorian novel
Russell, Frances Theresa
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Satire, English -- History and criticism; Thesis (Ph. D.)
Two especially noteworthy pieces of editorial Introduction should be
mentioned: Garnett’s for Peacock, and Mrs. Ritchie’s for Thackeray.
Among the many essays and shorter studies are the following:
Brontë, in Gates’s _Studies and Appreciations_; and
Swinburne’s _A Note on Charlotte Brontë_.
Eliot, in Darmstetter’s _English Studies_, Dowden’s
_Studies in Literature_, Morley’s _Critical
Miscellanies_, Myers’ _Modern Essays_, and Sherer’s
_Essays on English Literature_.
Meredith, in Elton’s _Modern Studies_, Henderson’s
_Interpreters of Life and the Modern Spirit_, and Sherman’s
_On Contemporary Literature_. Forman is editor of a volume
_Some Early Appreciations of Meredith_.
Reade, in _Swinburne’s Miscellanies_.
Trollope, in Bradford’s _A Naturalist of Souls_, and Julian
Hawthorne’s _Confessions in Criticism_.
And finally there are certain combinations and groups, such as:
Brontë and Eliot, in Bonnell’s _Charlotte Brontë, George
Eliot, and Jane Austen_.
Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, and Trollope, in Saintsbury’s
_Corrected Impressions_; and Peacock, in his _Essays in
English Literature_.
Brontë, Disraeli, Kingsley, and Eliot, in Stephen’s _Hours
in a Library_; and Trollope, in his _Studies of a
Biographer_.
Dickens and Thackeray, in Bagehot’s _Literary Studies_, and
Field’s _Yesterdays with Authors_.
Dickens, Thackeray, and Eliot, in Clark’s _Study of English
Prose Writers_.
Dickens, Thackeray, and Kingsley, in Lang’s _Essays in
Little_.
Dickens and Lytton, in Home’s _New Spirit of the Age_.
Dickens, in Hutton’s _Criticism on Contemporary Thought and
Thinkers_, and Eliot, in his _Essays on Some Modern Guides
to English Thought_.
Dickens, Disraeli, Gaskell, and Meredith, in More’s _Shelburne
Essays_.
Disraeli and Peacock, in Garnett’s _Essays of an
ex-Librarian_.
Eliot, in Berle’s _George Eliot and Thomas Hardy_.
Eliot and Trollope, in James’s _Partial Portraits_.
The following editions of the novelists are those referred to in the
text.
Brontë.
_Jane Eyre._ Haworth edition. Harper.
_Shirley_ and _Villette_. Dent edition.
Butler.
_Erewhon_ and _Erewhon Revisited_. Dutton.
_The Way of All Flesh. Modern Library_ edition. Boni
and Liveright.
Dickens.
_Pickwick_, _Oliver Twist_, _Nicholas Nickleby_,
_Martin Chuzzlewit_, _Hard Times_, _Little
Dorrit_, _Tale of Two Cities_, _Our Mutual Friend_.
Hearst International edition.
_Great Expectations_, and _Edwin Drood_. The Jefferson
Press.
_Dombey and Son._ Crowell.
_Barnaby Rudge._ Chapman and Hall.
_Disraeli._ Longmans, Green.
Eliot.
_Middlemarch_ and _Mill on the Floss_. Blackwood.
All the others, Scribners’ Standard edition.
Gaskell. Smith, Elder.
Kingsley. Macmillan.
Lytton. Knebworth edition. Routledge and Sons.
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