Oxford English Literary History: Volume 8: 1830-1880: The Victorians

Zusatztext Davis has written an excellent guide to the major Victorians. The achievement of this accessible, superbly readable survey is to allow the multiplicity and complexity of Victorian literature to emerge ... His kind of literary history is refreshingly energetic' Informationen zum Autor Jon Bate (General Editor):FBA, Professor of English Literature, Warwick University, well known as a scholar of Shakespeare and the Renaissance, and of the Romantic period. The UK's leading exponent of ecocriticism. Most recent books: Shakespeare and Ovid, the Arden Titus Andronicus, The Genius of Shakespeare, a novel about William Hazlitt called The Cure for Love and The Song of the Earth. General Editor of the Oxford English Literary History, for which he is writing the volume on the Elizabethans. He is also writing a major biography of John Clare. Klappentext - Launching the 21st-century successor to the Oxford History of English Literature! this and its companion volume inaugurate a new era in literary history Zusammenfassung Reveals how the literary voice of the Victorian age gives expression to a culminating crisis of the Western conscience. This work demonstrates how the power of Victorian literature lies in its gift of asking questions about society and the individual, democracy and industrialism, the existence of God, and the purpose of human life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations Introduction 1: Rural to Urban 1830-1850 2: Nature 3: Religion 4: Mind 5: Conditions of Literary Production 6: The Drama 7: Debatable Lands: Variety of Form and Genre in the Early Victorian Novel 8: Alternative Fictions 9: High Realism 10: Lives and Thoughts 11: Poetry Conclusion Author Bibliographies Suggestions for Further Reading Index

Product details

• Authors: Philip Davis, Philip ( Davis, Phillip Davis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2004
• EAN: 9780199269204
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926920-4
• No. of pages: 648
• Series: Oxford English Literary History; Oxford English Literary Histor; Oxford English Literary History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); England, History of Ideas, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Science, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism