The essays in this volume trace the experimentation of nineteenth-century writers in advancing new modes of realist fiction while revitalizing the inheritance o

The essays in this collection show how the conventions of realism were transformed by new ideas about gender and race.

This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels. Harris contends that women in the nineteenth century read subversive

This text explores the scope and variety of the great novels of the 19th century. The essays in this collection trace the experimentation of 19th-century writer

The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fictio