The realist Victorian novel – A dead end?
The realist Victorian novel – A dead end?

Summary/Abstract: This article aims at demonstrating that Victorian fiction is not outdated, and that at a closerand responsible analysis novels like “Bleak House”, “Vanity Fair”, “Jane Eyre” or “WutheringHeights” are works of visionary artists and which can easily be read in a modern key.Obsolescence, redundancy of descriptive passages, the choice of narrative perspectives arethe highlights of the article. The events which constitute the plot of the novels mentionedabove are by no means exclusively characteristic of the Victorian era, the frequentdescriptions are a significant part of the whole structure, and the narrative perspective isoftentimes as complex as a modern reader might expect. The conclusion of the article is thatVictorian fiction, far from being old-fashioned and boring, anticipates symbolical, evenfantastic elements in modern prose.

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