Author: Thomas Stearns EliotPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Course of Lectures on Victorian Literature
Author: Thomas Stearns EliotSyllabus of a Collegiate Course of Lectures on the History of English Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Frederick Henry SykesPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Syllabus of a Course of Twelve Lectures on the Victorian Poets
Author: Frederick John TeggartPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
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English Poets of the Victorian Era
Author: Edward BenslyPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel
Author: Deirdre DavidPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.
Outlines of Victorian Literature
Author: Hugh WalkerPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
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The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel
Author: Lisa RodenskyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191652512
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 829
Book Description
Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and science, the Victorian Bildungroman) as well as essays on topics often overlooked (the novel and classics, the novel and the OED, the novel, and allusion). Manifesting the increasing interdisciplinarity of Victorian studies, its essays situate the novel within a complex network of relations (among, for instance, readers, editors, reviewers, and the novelists themselves; or among different cultural pressures - the religious, the commercial, the legal). The handbook's essays also build on recent bibliographic work of remarkable scope and detail, responding to the growing attention to print culture. With a detailed introduction and 36 newly commissioned chapters by leading and emerging scholars — beginning with Peter Garside's examination of the early nineteenth-century novel and ending with two essays proposing the 'last Victorian novel' — the handbook attends to the major themes in Victorian scholarship while at the same time creating new possibilities for further research. Balancing breadth and depth, the clearly-written, nonjargon -laden essays provide readers with overviews as well as original scholarship, an approach which will serve advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scholars. As the Victorians get further away from us, our versions of their culture and its novel inevitably change; this Handbook offers fresh explorations of the novel that teach us about this genre, its culture, and, by extension, our own.
Reading Victorian Literature
Author: Wolfreys Julian WolfreysPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474448003
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticismProvides stheoretically informed critical essays on nineteenth-century and Victorian literature, by major internationally recognized scholarsChapters provide detailed close readings of the work of J Hillis Miller, Thomas Hardy, Walter Pater, William Michael Rossetti, George Gissing, Charles Dickens, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Joseph ConradShowcases a major new essay by J Hillis Miller, as well as a previously unpublished interview with MillerReading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the assembled group of internationally recognised scholars engages with Miller's work, influence and significance in the study of that era. The volume includes original work by Miller and interviews with him.
Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel
Author: Jill FranksPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476687269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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Enormous social changes during the Victorian era inspired some of the finest novels in the English language. In the final decades of the century, rigid application of gender rules and class hierarchies began to relax. Consciousness of the injustice of class- and gender-based discrimination was growing. Meanwhile, bias against nonwhite peoples was worsening. The British used scientific racism to justify their relentless expansion in Africa and Asia. Viewing Victorian literature through the lens of these social changes gives the modern reader a fresh way to interpret the novels and to appreciate their relevance to contemporary issues. Nineteenth-century novelists deployed realism, satire, and the bildungsroman to resist or support leading ideologies of their time, including the separate spheres doctrine and British supremacism. Each chapter is an elaboration of the author's university lectures about Victorian classics. The tone is scholarly yet conversational, directed to the undergraduate student as well as the general reader or Victoriaphile. The text presents concepts in interdisciplinary cultural studies, discusses the uses of genre for rhetorical and social purposes, and exposes paradoxes of the era. The coherent style, abundant examples, discussion questions, and literary glossary make this book a valuable supplement for readers of the Victorian novel.
Syllabus of a Course of Six Lectures on the Modern English Novel
Author: Frederick Henry SykesPublisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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