Harry E. Shaw has taught at Cornelt University since 1978, where he has served as Director of the John S. Knight Writing Program, Chair of the Department of English, and Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
From lane Austen's Persuasion to George Eliot's Middlemarch, the nineteenth century marks the rise of the novel as the dominant form of Western literature. This engaging text offers readers a close analysis of novels that are uniquely representative of the time period,including the work of Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskelt, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon,and the Bronte sisters.
Introduction
1 Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion
2 Waverley
3 Wuthering Heights
4 Jane Eyre
5 Vanity Fair
6 Mary Barton
7 Bleak House
8 The Warden and Barchester Towers
9 Lady Audley's Secret
10 Middlemarch
Appendix: Free Indirect Discourse
Notes
Further Reading
Index