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Practice (1980). Belsey Critiqued. D.A. Millera s The Novel and the Police (1988) Discussed. The Turn Against Realism in the 1980s. Interest in Gothic. Interest in the not--Said of Realism. The Feminist Recuperation of Realism in 1980s. Extract from Boumehlaa s a Realism and the Ends of Feminisma (1988). New Historicism and Historicizing the Real. Rothfielda s Vital Signs (1992). Nancy Armstrong and Kate Flint. Conclusion. Further Reading. . 5. Social--Problem Fiction. Historicism and Feminism. What is Social--Problem Fiction?. Outline of the First Part of Chapter. Cazamiana s Reading in 1903. The Significance of Raymond Williams. Williamsa s a Structures of Feelinga . Williamsa s Criticisms of Social--Problem Fiction. The Knowable Community in Williamsa s. . The English Novel (1970). Extract from The English Novel. . Williamsa s Generalizations. Sheila Smitha s Particularization of Williams. More Problems Found in Social--Problem Fiction. Brantlingera s Historicization: a Context for Social--Problem. Fiction 1. New Historicism: Further Contexts. Context 2. Gallagher and the Discourse over Industrialism. Context 3. Mary Poovey and the Social Body. Extract from Mary Pooveya s Making a Social Body (1995). Criticisms of New Historicism. Guy and Individualism in the Victorian Mind. Extract from Guya s The Victorian Social--Problem. Novel (1996). Feminism and the Social--Problem Novel. Outline of Second Part of Chapter. Recent Work on Elizabeth Gaskell. Bergmanna s Views on Strong Female Characters. Kestnera s Canon Revision. Nord, Female Novelists, and Transgression. Harman, Female Novelists, and Transformation. The Future of Social--Problem Fiction Criticism. Further Reading. . 6. Language and Form. Outline of the Chapter. Language and The Victorian Novel. General Linguistic Studies of the Novel. Language of Individual Victorian Novelists. Chapmana s Forms of Speech (1994). Relation of Arguments to Thinking about Realism. Other Documentary Work on Victorian Language. Bakhtin and Language Studies. Inghama s Views on Gender and Class. Extract from Ingham The Language of Gender and Class (1996). Bakhtin and Literature Studies. Form and The Victorian Novel. Henry James on Monster Novels. Van Ghenta s Reaction and Emphasis on Unity. Extract from Van Ghent The English Novel. Form and Function (1953). Barbara Hardya s Reaction: the Advantages of Fluidity in Form. Hillis Miller and Form without God. Deconstruction and Incoherence. Garretta s Deconstructionist Views of Multiplot Fiction. Extract from Garretta s The Victorian Multiplot Novel (1980). Keen and Narrative Annexes. Approaches to Form in 1980s and 90s Summarized. Further Reading (Including Narratology). 7. Science and the Victorian Novel. Outline of the Chapter. Early Approaches to Field. Stevensona s Darwin Among the Poets (1932) Discussed. Henkina s Darwinism in the English Novel (1940) Discussed. Cossletta s Work on Overlaps of Science and Literature. Beer on Darwin and Fiction. Extract from Beera s Darwina s Plots (1983). Science and Literature Read Alongside Each Other. Levinea s Study of Novelists Who Did Not Read Science. Levinea s Influential Concept of the One Culture. Extract from Levinea s Darwin and the Novelists (1988). Dickens and Science. 1990sa Interest in Pathology and Mind Sciences. Helen Small and Lovea s Madness. Smalla s Critique of the One Culture Model. Sally Shuttleworth on Psychology. Logan on Hysteria, Wood on Neurology. Eugenics and the Novel. Further Reading. . 8. The History of the Book. Diversity of History of the Book Studies. Outline of the Chapter. Bibliographical Work of Relevance to Victorian Fiction. Butt and Tillotson and the Material Conditions of Authorship. Altick and the Reader. The Three--Volume Novel and Its Problems. Extract from Sutherlanda s Victorian Novelists and Publishers (1976). Feltes and Marxist Readings of Production and Authorship. Feminist Revision of Sutherland Publishing History. Working--Class Fiction Recovered. 1990a s Emphasis on the Reader. Flint and the Woman Reader. Gender and the Marketplace. Catherine Judda s a Male Pseudonyms and Female.a . Authority in Victorian Englanda (1995). Further Reading. . 9. Postcolonial Readings. Range and Diversity of Postcolonialism. Central Interests of Postcolonialism. Outline of the Chapter. Early Views of Victorian Fiction and Empire. Saida s Orientalism (1978) and Its Consequences for Fiction. Spivaka s Critique of Feminism. The Embeddedness of Fiction in Colonial Ideology. Extract from Spivak a Three Womena s Texts and Critique of Imperialisma . Brantlingera s Rule of Darkness (1988) and Explicit Engagements with Empire. Bivona and the Hidden Presence of Empire. Perera and Colonial Anxieties. Sharpe and Fictiona s Collusion with Ideology. Richards and the Imperial Archive. Azim and the Imperial Form of Fiction. Extract from Azima s The Colonial Rise of the Novel (1993). Deirdre David, Women, and the Empire. Meyer and Fictiona s Double Relationship with Colonial Ideology. Extract from Imperialism at Home (1996). Further Reading. Index.