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The world of Victorian writers in Zadie Smith\u2019s historical novel \u201cThe Fraud\u201d: a non-canonical \u201cinsider\u201d view<\/h1>\n
Pages:<\/strong> 88-96 \u00a0|
\nDOI:<\/strong> 10.37724\/RSU.2026.92.3.010 \u00a0|
\nEDN:<\/strong> \u2014 \u00a0|
\nUDK:<\/strong> 821.111-311.6.09\u00ab20\u00bb<\/div>\n
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Proskurnin B.M.<\/strong>
\nPerm State National Research University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Abstract<\/strong>The article examines the ideological and artistic features of the interpretation of Victorianism and the world of writers of that era in the first historical novel by the famous British writer Zadie Smith. The relevance of the study is due to the dynamics of the historical novel in the literary process of Great Britain at the present stage, the need to identify the originality of Smith\u2019s approach to the genre and her contribution to the national tradition. In addition, the relevance is determined by the need for a more comprehensive and unbiased view of the Victorian era as an important stage in the formation of the English national mentality and culture, in which literature played a significant role. The purpose of the present study is to identify and analyze the author\u2019s original approach to the possibilities of the historical novel of culture and to the personalities and destinies of a number of leading writers of the century before last, as well as Zadie Smith\u2019s conceptual and artistic polemics with stereotypes and clich\u00e9s in the perception of some leading figures of the English literary and artistic process in the 1830s and 1870s, including Dickens, Thackeray, Ainsworth, Cruikshank, and Forster. In the course of analyzing the novel\u2019s artistic system, the author of the article concludes that the novel\u2019s system of images, the type of narration, and the author\u2019s creative work with the genre paradigm of the new type of historical novel that emerged in the English novel tradition in the late 1980s allow Smith to create a work that presents the Victorian era and the world of writers in an original way, adding new accents and authorial individuality to the portrayal of Victorianism. Further research could focus on the novel\u2019s dialogue with Ainsworth\u2019s works as the main literary figures in the novel, the functioning of irony in the novel\u2019s narrative paradigm, the author\u2019s voice, the theme of black Britons in the artistic system, and other aspects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Keywords:<\/strong> 21st-century English literature, historical novel, Victorian Era, Charles Dickens, William Ainsworth<\/div>\n
Funding:<\/strong>
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The world of Victorian writers in Zadie Smith\u2019s historical novel \u201cThe Fraud\u201d: a non-canonical \u201cinsider\u201d view Pages: 88-96 \u00a0| DOI: 10.37724\/RSU.2026.92.3.010 \u00a0| EDN: \u2014 \u00a0| UDK: 821.111-311.6.09\u00ab20\u00bb Proskurnin B.M. Perm State National Research University AbstractThe article examines the ideological and artistic features of the interpretation of Victorianism and the world of writers of that era […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7057","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}