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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...
