A Victorian Art of Fiction

Essays on the Novel in British Periodicals 1830-1850

John Olmsted, John Charles Olmsted

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317269090
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

First published in 1979, this collection of sixty-three essays on the novel drawn from ten periodicals demonstrates the primary concerns of those discussing the nature and purpose of prose fiction in the period from 1830 to 1850. The essays reflect what was thought and said about the art of fiction and reveal what journalists of these periodicals thought were the most urgent critical concerns facing the working reviewer.

Including an introduction which assesses the issues raised by the best periodicals at the time, this anthology is designed to provide students of Victorian fiction and critical theory with a collection of essays on the art of fiction in a convenient and durable form.

Table of contents

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• Dedication
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• Preface
• Introduction
• "Mr. Godwin." The Edinburgh Review 51 (April 1830), 144–59
• "The Dominie's Legacy." Fraser's Magazine 1 (April 1830), 318–35
• "Cloudesley; a Tale. By the Author of Caleb Williams." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 27 (May 1830), 711—16
• "Paul Clifford." The Athenaeum (May 15, 1830), 289
• "Mr. Edward Lytton Bulwer's Novels; and Remarks on Novel-Writing." Fraser's Magazine 1 (June 1830), 509–32
• "Mrs. Gore's Women as they Are; or, the Manners of the Day." The Edinburgh Review 51 (July 1830), 444–62
• "The Literary Gazette." The Athenaeum (September 4, 1830), 556
• "Tales from the German of Tieck." The Athenaeum (April 16, 1831), 245
• "Literary Women. No. II. Jane Austen." The Athenaeum (August 27, 1831), 553–54
• "Historical Romance. No. I. Sir Walter Scott and His Imitators." Fraser's Magazine 5 (January 1832), 6–19
• from "Mr. Bulwer's Novels—Eugene Aram." The Edinburgh Review 55 (April 1832), 208–19
• "The Waverley Novels." The Edinburgh Review 55 (April 1832), 61–79
• from "Stanley Buxton; or, the Schoolfellows." The Athenaeum (April 7, 1832), 222
• "French Novels." The Foreign Quarterly Review 10 (October 1832), 474–81
• "Novels of Fashionable Life." The Quarterly Review 48 (October 1832), 165—201
• "Common Novel Readers." The Athenaeum (September 14, 1833), 618
• "Novel Writing." The Athenaeum (November 9, 1833), 752–53
• "British Novels and Romances" from "Biographical and Critical History of the Literature of the Last Fifty Years." The Athenaeum (November 16 and 30, 1833), 773–77; 809–12
• "Anne Grey: a Novel." The Athenaeum (October 25, 1834), 779
• "French Novels." The Quarterly Review 56 (April 1836), 65–131
• "The Three Eras of Woman's Life." The Athenaeum (July 2, 1836), 461–62
• "The Divorced." The Athenaeum (February 25, 1837), 135
• "Recent English Romances." The Edinburgh Review 65 (April 1837), 180–204
• "Lockhart's Life of Scott." The London and Westminster Review 28 (January 1838), 293–345
• "On Art in Fiction." The Monthly Chronicle 1 (March and April 1838), 42–51; 138–49
• "Irish Novels and Irish Novelists." The Dublin Review 4 (April 1838), 495–543
• "Russian Novel Writing." The Foreign Quarterly Review 21 (April 1838), 56–78
• "Lady Blessington's Novels." The Edinburgh Review 67 (July 1838), 349–57
• "Dickens's Tales." The Edinburgh Review 68 (October 1838), 75–97
• "Oliver Twist." The Quarterly Review 64 (June 1839), 83–102
• "Miss Martineau's Deerbrook." The Edinburgh Review 69 (July 1839), 494–502
• from "De Kock's Novels." The Foreign Quarterly Review 24 (October 1839), 168–99
• "Jack Sheppard: a Romance." The Athenaeum (October 26, 1839), 803–05
• "Charles Dickens and His Works." Fraser's Magazine 21 (April 1840), 381–400
• "The Dowager; or, the New School for Scandal." The Athenaeum (November 14, 1840), 899–900
• "The Siege of Florence, an Historical Romance." The Athenaeum (November 28, 1840), 944–45
• "Robert Macaire in England." The Athenaeum (January 2, 1841), 6–7
• "Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon." The Athenaeum (February 27, 1841), 166
• "Charles Chesterfield; or, the Adventures of a Youth of Genius." The Athenaeum (September 25, 1841), 740–41
• "French Romances." Fraser's Magazine 27 (February 1843), 184–94
• "The Monster-Misery of Literature. By a Mouse Born of the Mountain." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 55 (May 1844), 556–60
• "Balzac and George Sand." The Foreign Quarterly Review 33 (July 1844), 265–98
• "Martin Chuzzlewit." The Athenaeum (July 20, 1844), 665–66
• "Recent Novels." The North British Review 1 (August 1844), 545–79
• "Ainsworth's St. James's; or, the Court of Queen Anne." Fraser's Magazine 30 (December 1844), 740–42
• "Things Old and New, being a Sequel to 'The Chronicles of Waltham.'" The Athenaeum (April 5, 1845), 332
• "Writings of Charles Dickens." The North British Review 3 (May 1845), 65–87
• "The Novel and the Drama." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 57 (June 1845), 679–87
• "The Historical Romance." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 58 (September 1845), 341–56
• "The Levite; or, Scenes Two Hundred Years Ago." The Athenaeum (September 27, 1845), 934–36
• "About a Christmas Book. In a Letter from Michael Angelo Titmarsh to Oliver Yorke, Esq." Fraser's Magazine 32 (December 1845), 744–48
• "The Step-Mother The Athenaeum (April 1, 1846), 368–70
• from "Tales by a Barrister." The Quarterly Review 79 (December 1846), 61–92
• "The Battle of Life; a Love Story." The Athenaeum (December 26, 1846), 1319
• "A Grumble About the Christmas-Books." Fraser's Magazine 35 (January 1847), 111–26
• "Walter Scott—Has History Gained by His Writings?" Fraser's Magazine 36 (September 1847), 345–51
• "Recent Novels: French and English." Fraser's Magazine 36 (December 1847), 686–95
• "Wuthering Heights." The Athenaeum (December 25, 1847), 1324–25
• "A Few Words About Novels—A Dialogue, in a Letter to Eusebius." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 64 (October 1848), 459–74
• "Vanity Fair—and Jane Eyre." The Quarterly Review 84 (December 1848), 153–85
• "Recent Novels." Fraseṙ's Magazine 39 (April 1849), 417–32
• "Currer Bell's Shirley." The Edinburgh Review 91 (January 1850), 153–73
• "Jane Eyre—Shirley." Dublin Review 28 (March 1850), 209–33