Victorian Unfinished Novels

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Sense of Unending. Closing Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Emma’

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   Pages 1-20

3. Becoming Ladies and Gentlemen in W. M. Thackeray’s Denis Duval and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters

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   Pages 21-51

4. The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Decomposition of Forms

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   Pages 52-78

5. The Strange Case of Weir of Hermiston and St. Ives: R. L. Stevenson’s Last Adventures in Narration

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   Pages 79-106

6. Time Changes: Anthony Trollope’s The Landleaguers and Wilkie Collins’s Blind Love

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   Pages 107-138

7. Conclusion: Henry James Sensing the Past

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   Pages 139-147

8. Back Matter

   Pages 148-204

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The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon.

• Anthony Trollope
• Henry James
• Narration
• novel
• time
• Victorian era
• British and Irish Literature

'Victorian Unfinished Novels is an important project so much so one wonders why nobody has written a book like this before. Tomaiuolo reveals how unresolved patterns and tensions in the unfinished novel offer a powerful source of analysis in literary criticism. An author's logistical inability to tidy away his or her work materials results in a complex exposition of the ways in which context, production and ideology shape the literary.' - Andrew Mangham, Lecturer in English, University of Reading, UK

SAVERIO TOMAIUOLO Lecturer in English Literature and Language at Cassino University, Italy. He has written a monograph on Alfred Tennyson, a book on translation theory, as well as articles and essays on Victorian and Postmodern literature. He has recently published In Lady Audley's Shadow. Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres (2010).

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