id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt c821gh96865 Jane Elizabeth Wageman Sympathy in the 21st Century: Zadie Smith's Victorian Roots 1904 .txt text/plain 223 7 28 This thesis focuses on the contemporary novel's formal engagements with its Victorian predecessors, arguing that multiculturalism and immigration impact the ways in which contemporary novels utilize Victorian narrative structures and plots. The influence of the Victorian novel on 20th and early 21st century fiction takes many forms: from rewritings of classic works, to the creation of historical fiction, to the transposition of literature to different media. cache/c821gh96865.txt txt/c821gh96865.txt