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- Title
The Victorian Provincial Novel.
- Authors
Robinson, Amy J.
- Abstract
Provincial novels such as those by Gaskell, Trollope, and Eliot are well-known, well-loved, and often canonical, but scholars have not always examined in detail the characteristics that qualify them as provincial. Furthermore, past scholarship tends to focus on a negative definition of the provincial, concentrating on its difference from the metropolis, and on the ways in which provincial novels ignore the forces of modernity. However, this article traces the resurgence in scholarship on the subgenre of the Victorian provincial novel and how this scholarship transcends discussion of the local. This article shows that Victorian provincial novels connect to debates about regionalism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and empire.
- Subjects
19TH century English literature; REGIONALISM in literature; NATIONALISM in literature; COSMOPOLITANISM in literature; LITERATURE
- Publication
Literature Compass, 2015, Vol 12, Issue 10, p548
- ISSN
1741-4113
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/lic3.12257