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Goodlad, Lauren M.E. Saville, Julia F. Underwood, Ted Bigelow, Gordon O'Dell, Benjamin Daniel 2019-08-23T20:35:51Z 2019-08-23T20:35:51Z 2021-08-24T09:15:34Z 2019-04-12 2019-05 "Between the dawn of the nineteenth century and its close, Britain went from a predominantly rural nation with modest territorial holdings to an urban industrial power with an expansive imperial presence. This dissertation, ""Victorian Literature and Historical Time: Genre and Historicity after Walter Scott,"" examines how Victorian writers experimented with literary form to create narrative temporalities capable of negotiating these changes. Georg Lukács famously associated literature's historicity with the realist novel’s ability to capture social movement through typical characters, a narrative form he tied to the historical fiction of Walter Scott. Yet Lukács believed that a reactionary turn after the failed European revolutions of 1848 coincided with an increasing decline in the novel's capacity to depict such historical dynamism. Critics including Ian Duncan, Lauren M.E. Goodlad, Ruth Livesey, Harry E. Shaw and Raymond Williams have since shown the persistence of British literature's historical focus through a variety of inventive forms. This project explores the modes of temporal experience that different literary genres convey. Focusing on Charles Dickens’s Sketches by Boz (1833-6; 1839), Arthur Hugh Clough’s Amours de Voyage (1849; 1858), George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859), and Thomas Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), it demonstrates how genre-driven temporal experiments capture a sense of historical movement through creative figurations of narrative time." Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01 The student, Benjamin O'Dell, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-12 at 10:42. The student, Benjamin O'Dell, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-04-12 at 10:57. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-04-12 at 14:26. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13585 on 2019-08-22 at 15:05:57 Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:35:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 ODELL-DISSERTATION-2019.pdf: 774303 bytes, checksum: d61f857a1bcc29f53acd89e7fa3e5e08 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4212 bytes, checksum: 07e02f9f9c2c9c2b4b79e8844c4b8931 (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4558 bytes, checksum: cf60e221df521916cee53711baeebbfb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019-04-12 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 112130 Lift date: 2021-08-23T20:36:18Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 112130 on 2021-08-24T09:15:34Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/105011 en Copyright 2019 Benjamin D. O'Dell Victorian Victorian literature history the historical novel historicity historical process George Eliot Adam Bede Charles Dickens Sketches by Boz Arthur Hugh Clough Amours de Voyage Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge time temporality narrative form genre experiment Georg Lukács Walter Scott historical romance modern modernity England change changefulness British British literature English literature the verse novel sketchbook serialization serial seriality Victorian literature and historical time: Genre and historicity after Walter Scott text text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.