The author argues that our worldview is shaped not just by great public events but also by the most overlooked and familiar aspects of common life - the everyday. This sphere of the everyday has always been a crucial component of the novel, but has been ignored by many writers and critics and long associated with the writing of women. Focusing on the linked series of novels characteristic of later-Victorian and early-modern fiction - such as Margaret Oliphant's Carlingford Chronicles or the Sherlock Holmes stories - she ...
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The author argues that our worldview is shaped not just by great public events but also by the most overlooked and familiar aspects of common life - the everyday. This sphere of the everyday has always been a crucial component of the novel, but has been ignored by many writers and critics and long associated with the writing of women. Focusing on the linked series of novels characteristic of later-Victorian and early-modern fiction - such as Margaret Oliphant's Carlingford Chronicles or the Sherlock Holmes stories - she investigates how authors make use of the everyday as a foundation to support their versions of realism.
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