{"product_id":"modes-of-production-of-victorian-novels","title":"Modes of Production of Victorian Novels","description":"In this sophisticated application of modern Marxist thought, N. N. Feltes demonstrates the determining influence of nineteenth-century publishing practices on the Victorian novel. His dialectical analysis leads to a comprehensive explanation of the development of capitalist novel production into the twentieth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeltes focuses on five English novels: Dickens's \u003ci\u003ePickwick Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, Thackeray's \u003ci\u003eHenry Esmond\u003c\/i\u003e, Eliot's \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, Hardy's \u003ci\u003eTess of the d'Urbervilles\u003c\/i\u003e, and Forster's \u003ci\u003eHowards End\u003c\/i\u003e. Published at approximately twenty year intervals between 1836 and 1920, they each represent a different first-publication format: part-issue, three-volume, bimonthly, magazine-serial, and single-volume. Drawing on publishing, economic, and literary history, Feltes offers a broad, synthetic explanation of the relationship between the production and format of each novel, and the way in which these determine, in the last instance, the ideology of the text. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eModes of Production in Victorian Novels\u003c\/i\u003e provides a Marxist structuralist analysis of historical events and practices described elsewhere only empirically, and traces their relationship to literary texts which have been analyzed only idealistically, thus setting these familiar works firmly and perhaps permanently into a framework of historic materialism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54218423009624,"sku":"9780226241180","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226241180.jpg?v=1771307135","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/modes-of-production-of-victorian-novels","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}