This text offers students and teachers a close analysis of nineteenth-century novels by ten major authors: Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Brontë sisters. <br><ul><br><li>Examines a wide range of nineteenth-century novels - <i>Persuasion</i>, <i>Middlemarch</i>, <i>The</i> <i>Heart of Midlothian</i>, <i>Vanity Fair</i>, <i>Mary Barton</i>, <i>Bleak House</i>, <i>The Warden</i>, <i>Wuthering Heights</i>, and <i>Jane Eyre</i> <br><li>Explores significant theoretical approaches such as Foucauldian, Postcolonial, Bakhtinian, and feminist criticism <br><li>Employs an “appreciative” model of criticism, sparking a renewed interest in engaging with Victorian aesthetics on its own terms <br><li>Offers an overview of the social, economic, and political change that influenced the fiction of the time </li></ul>