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From Sketch to Novel
The Development of Victorian Fiction

Part of Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Author: Amanpal Garcha, Ohio State University

Date Published: July 2009
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521513586

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When William Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell began their writing careers in the 1830s, they chose to write literary sketches, adopting a popular short form that emphasized description and essayistic analysis rather than storytelling. In this unusual study of a previously neglected literary form, Amanpal Garcha shows how the literary sketch influenced these authors' careers, transformed the marketplace for fiction and led to the development of some of the Victorian novel's key formal and ideological elements.

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- Date Published: July 2009
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521513586
- length: 294 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.6kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction: From Sketch to Novel:
1. Modern change and aestheticized stasis in the early nineteenth century
2. Plotless styles in novel history and theory
Part II. Journalism, Modernity, and Stasis in The Paris Sketch Book and The History of Pendennis:
3. Capitalist excess, gentlemanly atavism: Thackeray's devils in his early sketches
4. Pendennis's stasis and Thackeray's professional sensibilities
Part III. Styles of Stillness and Motion: Charles Dickens's Lower-Class Descriptions:
5. Sketches by Boz: narrative form and market culture
6. Narrating stasis, describing reform: Nicholas Nickleby
Part IV. Elizabeth Gaskell's Individualism, from 'Sketches among the Poor' to Cranford:
7. 'Leave me, leave me to repose': Gaskell's descriptive individualism
8. Cranford's individualistic style
Conclusion: 'nothing democratic': intelligence, abstraction, and avant-garde plotlessness
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Amanpal Garcha, Ohio State University