{"product_id":"plotting-the-news-in-the-jessica-r-valdez-9781474474351","title":"Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExplores how nineteenth-century novels analysed the formal and social workings of news\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eArgues that the concept of fake news was central to the development of the novel form\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates that novelistic realism develops in tension with emerging claims to reality in the newspaper press\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributes to a new wave of scholarship on formal devices in the history of the novel, made most visible by the V21 Collective\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAppeals to scholars in media, literary, and novel studies, as well as a broader public because it traces early theorisations of news discourse\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws upon a real Victorian news story in each of the first three chapters \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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: Charles Dickens interrogates the distinctions between fictional and journalistic storytelling, while Anthony Trollope explores novelistic \u003ci\u003ebildung\u003c\/i\u003e in serial form; the sensation novels of Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon locate melodrama in realist discourses, whereas Anglo-Jewish writer Israel Zangwill represents a hybrid minority experience. At the core of these metaphors and narrative forms is a theorisation of the newspaper's influence on society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica R. Valdez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474474357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474474351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Jessica R. Valdez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056484315391,"sku":"9781474474351","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_507c2558-a391-4e3e-b0d9-0ca1338936e0.jpg?v=1685041567","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/plotting-the-news-in-the-jessica-r-valdez-9781474474351","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}