Stephen Wall, Trollope and Character and Other Essays on Victorian - Literatur

'Stephen Wall, "Trollope and Character" (1988) and Other Essays on Victorian Literature' is a collection of critical essays by the eminent literary critic Stephen Wall, including his exceptional writings on Anthony Trollope, as well as brilliant studies of Charles Dickens and other major Victorian figures.

List of contents

Preface; Introduction: 'Stephen Wall and Trollope' by Nicholas Shrimpton; PART ONE: ON TROLLOPE; 1. The Artist as Philistine (1984); 2. Trollope and Character (1988); PART TWO: ON DICKENS AND OTHERS; 3. George Eliot and Her Readers (1965); 4. Jane Austen's Judgments (1968); 5. Dickens: New Words and Old Opinions (1969); 6. Dickens and His Readers (1970); 7. Dickens in 1970 (1971); 8. Annotated English Novels? (1982); 9. Affective Intentions (1985); 10. Virtuoso Variations (1987); 11. Going Beyond the Repertory (1990); 12. A Little Local Irritation (1998); Index.

About the author

Seamus Perry is professor of English in the English Faculty at Oxford University, UK, and a fellow of the university's Balliol College. He is a co-editor of the journal Essays in Criticism, of which Stephen Wall was, for many years, the principal editor. Perry has published books on Coleridge, Tennyson and T. S. Eliot, and articles and essays on various aspects of nineteenth-century English literature.

Product details

• Authors: Seamus Perry
• Assisted by: Seamus Perry (Editor), Perry Seamus (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2018
• EAN: 9781783088171
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-817-1
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century; Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form