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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Jerome Meckier
Dickens scholar Jerome Meckier’s acclaimed Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction examined fierce literary competition between leading novelists who tried to establish their credentials as realists by rewriting Dickens’s novels.
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Wilkie Collins tried a different form of parodic revaluation: he strove to outdo Dickens at the kind of novel Dickens thought he did best, the kind his other rivals tried…
In fascinating counterpoint, Meckier charts the ticket speculators’ systematic successes, the ups and downs of Dickens’s catarrh, and the steady inroads he made into the heart of Annie Fields, his…
Within the cycle that runs from Erewhon to Island, British literary utopias compete with one another to form the most persuasive picture of what the future might, or should, be…
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These essays focus on major figures, works or themes and movements of the Victorian era. They strive for fresh perspectives and aim to fill the gap in critical literature while…
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