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PRESENCE OF THE PRESENT: TOPICS OF THE DAY IN THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

by RICHARD D. ALTICK
The Ohio State University Press, 1991
Cloth: 978-0-8142-0518-1 | Paper: 978-0-8142-5279-6
Library of Congress Classification PR878.R4A48 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.80912

TOC

  • CONTENTS 
    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • 1. 
    • The Glare of the Present
    • 2. 
    • The Topical Novelists
    • 3. 
    • Forms and Sources
    • 4. 
    • Events and Movements
    • 5. 
    • Lapses of Time
    • 6. 
    • New Ways of Riding and Writing
    • 7. 
    • Consumer Goods
    • 8. 
    • The Favorite Vice of the Nineteenth Century
    • 9. 
    • The Way They Looked
    • 10. 
    • The Sense of Place
    • 11. 
    • The Great Metropolis
    • 12. 
    • Names in the Cultural News
    • 13. 
    • Popular Entertainments
    • 14. 
    • The Shady Side
    • 15. 
    • Real People, More or Less
    • 16. 
    • Money and Occupations
    • 17. 
    • Speculation and Bankruptcy
    • 18. 
    • The Free and Independent: I
    • 19. 
    • The Free and Independent: II
    • 20. 
    • Language
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix A: Editions Cited
    • Appendix B: Chronology
    • Notes
    • Index
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