Victorian Literature - An Anthology

Informationen zum Autor Victor Shea is Associate Professor of Humanities and English at York University, Canada. He holds degrees from University of Prince Edward Island, University of Toronto, and York University. His research interests include Victorian culture and literature, British Empire and imperialism, American Studies, and literary theory. With William Whitla, he is co-editor of Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and its Readings (2000) and co-author of Foundations: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing (2nd edition, 2005). William Whitla is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in English and Humanities at York University, Canada.  He holds degrees from University of Toronto, TrinityCollege, and University of Oxford. His research interests include Victorian culture and literature, literary theory, and interdisciplinary studies in medieval and Renaissance studies. He is the author of The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). With Victor Shea, he is co-editor of Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and its Readings (2000) and co-author of Foundations: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing (2nd edition, 2005). Klappentext Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry - from the canon to its extensions and its contexts.* Represents the period's major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontës* Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the inclusion of women, working-class, colonial, and gay and lesbian writers* Incorporates recent scholarship with 5 contextual sections and innovative sub-sections on topics like environmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media; sex and sexuality; melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny and innovations in print culture* Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field with a focus on social, cultural, artistic, and historical factors* Includes a fully annotated companion website for teachers and students offering expanded context sections, additional readings from key writers, appendices, and an extensive bibliography Zusammenfassung Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry from the canon to its extensions and its contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Plates and Illustrations xlii Preface xlv Abbreviations li Introduction 1 Victorian Representations and Misrepresentations 1 "The Terrific Burning" 2 The Battle of the Styles 3 "The Best of Times, the Worst of Times" 4 Demographics and Underlying Fears 5 Power, Industry, and the High Cost of Bread and Beer 5 The Classes and the Masses 7 The Dynamics of Gender 8 Religion and the Churches 9 Political Structures 11 Empire 12 Genres and Literary Hierarchies 12 The Fine Arts and Popular Entertainment 13 Revolutions in Mass Media and the Expansion of Print Culture 17 Part One Contexts 19 The Condition of England 21 Introduction 21 1. The Victorian Social Formation 27 Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73): Pelham (1828) 27 From Chapter 1 27 Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Chartism (1840) 29 From Chapter 1: "Condition-of-England Question" 29 Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Past and Present (1843) 30 From Book I, Chapter 1: "Midas" 30 Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81): Sybil (1845) 32 From Book 2, Chapter 5 [The Two Nations] 32 George Cru...

List of contents

List of Plates and Illustrations xlii
 
Preface xlv
 
Abbreviations li
 
Introduction 1
 
Part one Contexts 19
 
The Condition of England 21
 
1. The Victorian Social Formation 27
 
2. Education and Mass Literacy 37
 
3. Progress, Industrialization, and Reform 18
 
4. Working-Class Voices 45
 
5. Pollution, Protection, and Preservation 61
 
Gender, Women, and Sexuality 49
 
1. Constructing Genders 56
 
2. The Woman Question 68
 
3. Sex and Sexuality 84
 
Literature and the Arts 81
 
1. Debates about Literature 87
 
2. Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, and Decadence 98
 
3. Literature and New Technologies 144
 
3.1 Book Publishing 144
 
3.2 Aural Culture 152
 
3.3 Photography and Cinema 161
 
Religion and Science 113
 
1. Geology and Evolution 122
 
2. Religious Faith and Uncertainty 196
 
Empire 142
 
1. Celebration and Criticism 148
 
2. Governing the Colonies 166
 
2.1 India 166
 
2.2 White Colonies and Dependencies 229
 
2.3 Ireland 234
 
2.4 Africa 245
 
3. Imperial Travellers 254
 
Part Two Authors 181
 
Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864) 183
 
Charlotte Elliott (1789 - 1871) 185
 
John Keble (1792 - 1866) 186
 
Felicia Hemans (1793 - 1835) 190
 
Janet Hamilton (1795 - 1873) 198
 
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) 200
 
Maria Smith Abdy (1797 - 1867) 210
 
Mary Howitt (1799 - 1888) 212
 
Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845) 216
 
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799 - 1872) 222
 
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 59) 225
 
John Henry Newman (1801 - 90) 230
 
William Barnes (1801 - 86) 239
 
Harriet Martineau (1802 - 76) 244
 
L. E. L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon] (1802 - 38) 248
 
Elizabeth Duncan Campbell (1804 - 78) 258
 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 61) 266
 
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 73) 272
 
Caroline Norton (1808 - 77) 285
 
Charles Darwin (1809 - 82) 293
 
Edward FitzGerald (1809 - 83) 301
 
Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 92) 318
 
Robert Browning (1812 - 89) 420
 
Edward Lear (1812 - 88) 451
 
Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904) 455
 
Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 55) 457
 
Grace Aguilar (1816 - 47) 464
 
Edwin Waugh (1817 - 90) 467
 
Emily Jane Brontë (1818 - 48) 470
 
Eliza Cook (1818 - 89) 477
 
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 - 61) 479
 
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) 484
 
Queen Victoria (1819 - 1901) 506
 
George Eliot (1819 - 80) 509
 
Anne Brontë (1820 - 49) 511
 
Jean Ingelow (1820 - 97) 516
 
Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) 518
 
Dora Greenwell (1821 - 82) 529
 
Matthew Arnold (1822 - 88) 532
 
Coventry Patmore (1823 - 96) 564
 
Sydney Dobell (1824 - 74) 572
 
William Topaz McGonagall (1825 - 1902) 574
 
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895) 578
 
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825 - 64) 583
 
Eliza Harriet Keary (1827 - 1918) 588
 
Samuel Laycock (1826 - 93) 591
 
Emily Pfeiffer (1827 - 90) 594
 
Ellen Johnston (c.1827 - 74) 598
 
George Meredith (1828 - 1909) 605
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) 606
 
Gerald Massey (1828 - 1907) 628
 
Elizabeth Siddal (1829 - 62) 631
 
Christina Rossetti (1830 - 94) 634
 
Lewis Carroll (1832 - 98) 671
 
William Morris (1834 - 96) 679
 
James Thomson [B. V.] (1834 - 82)

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"A fully annotated anthology of Victorian literature is a massive undertaking, and the editors are to be commended for this near-heroic level of endeavor and the inclusiveness of their selections."--Florence Boos, University of Iowa
"In Victorian Literature Shea and Whitla have created a unique anthology that continues as an online resource, extending the contents in deep and subtle ways. The reader finds a rich account of Victorian culture, from issues of industrialisation, gender, and colonial ideology to the art and architecture of the period, including the Victorian art form, the photograph. The comprehensive gathering of poems includes women's poetry and working-class poetry."--Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London

Product details

• Authors: V Shea, Victor Shea, Victor (York University Shea, Victor Whitla Shea, William Whitla
• Assisted by: Victo Shea (Editor), Victor Shea (Editor), Shea Victor (Editor), Whitla (Editor), Whitla (Editor), William Whitla (Editor), Whitla William (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2014
• EAN: 9781405188746
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-8874-6
• No. of pages: 1008
• Series: Blackwell Anthologies; Blackwell Anthologies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literatur, Literaturwissenschaft, Englische Literatur, Viktorianisches Zeitalter, Literature, Grossbritannien /Literatur, Literaturgeschichte, Englische Literatur / 19. Jhd., 19th Century English Literature, English Literature