Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel
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- ISBN 9781474474351
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions. Each chapter addresses a different narrative modality and its relationship to the news. From Charles Dickens interrogating the distinctions between fictional and journalistic storytelling to the sensation novels of Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon locating melodrama in realist discourses, the core of these metaphors and narrative forms is a theorisation of the newspaper's influence on society.
Jessica Valdez is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. Her published articles include “‘Our Impending Doom’: Seriality’s End in Late-Victorian ProtoDystopian Novels,” special issue on “Seriality,” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, 9.1 (2019), “‘This is Our City’: Realism and the Sentimentality of Place in David Simon’s The Wire,” European Journal of American Culture, 34.3 (2015), pp. 193-209 and “How to Write Yiddish in English, or Israel Zangwill and Multilingualism in Children of the Ghetto,” Studies in the Novel, 46.3 (2014), pp. 315-334.
