Ulteriori informazioni
Zusatztext [A] magnificent work of literary engagement and partisanship ... The development and mission of realism in the novel make up only one of the areas on which Davis sheds light, and he has marvelous chapters on nature, mind, religion, publishing, theatre, and poetry. His prose possesses an insistent spiritual vigor and is free of the ham-fisted parlance and empty cunning of `lit-crit'.' Informationen zum Autor Jonathan 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, and he is also engaged in a major biography of John Clare. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung Looks at both canonical and non-canonical writings in their historical context. This book is for students and scholars. It demonstrates how the power of Victorian literature, not just the riches of its novels and poetry, but also non-fiction writings from Darwin to Ruskin and Mill, lies in its gift of asking questions with a personal insistence. 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
