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In "The Realistic Imagination, " George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a continuing process in which each generation of writers struggled to escape the grip of convention and attempted to create new language to express the...

Levine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists--from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. "Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose."--Frank M. Turner, "Nineteenth-Century Literature." "Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of its subject."--Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania

How to Read the Victorian Novel" unpicks our comfortable expectations of the genre to fully explore just how unfamiliar its familiarity is: emphasizing the complexity and contradictions in Victorian writers' attempts to deal with a world heading into modernity at full speed.