The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader
provides a comprehensive selection of contemporary and modern essays on the most important novels of the period. By bringing together a range of material written across two centuries, it offers an insight into the changing reception of realist fiction and a discussion of how complex debates about the meaning and function of realism informed and shaped the kind of fiction that was written in the nineteenth century. The novels discussed are:
Northanger Abbey
,
Jane Eyre
Dombey and Son
Middlemarch
Far From the Madding Crowd
Germinal
Madame Bovary, The Woman in White
The Portrait of a Lady
The Awakening
Dracula
Heart of Darkness
.