The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Serialization

An ambitious weave of ideological, literary, and commodity history, The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot sacralized Victorian modernity in two contradictory ways: by incarnating their moment as one of transcendent development, and by reenacting bloody rituals from a fading Protestant past. Both the magnitude and the brevity of their success make these works exemplary for our own era, caught between the archaic gods of traditional religion and the still-mysterious ones of market society.

Author: D. Payne
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/23/2005
Pages: 206
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.62w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781403947741

About the Author
DAVID PAYNE received his PhD in 1998 from Columbia University, where he held a Whiting and other fellowships. He has taught at Columbia, Auburn and Georgia State universities