A History of Victorian Literature

Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors. Part of the Blackwell Histories of Literature series, the book describes the development of the Victorian literary movement and places it within its cultural, social and political context.

A wide-ranging narrative overview of literature in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, capturing the extraordinary variety of literary output produced during this era
Analyzes the development of all literary forms during this period - the novel, poetry, drama, autobiography and critical prose - in conjunction with major developments in social and intellectual history
Considers the ways in which writers engaged with new forms of social responsibility in their work, as Britain transformed into the world's first industrial economy
Offers a fresh perspective on the work of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors

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Title of ebook: A History of Victorian Literature
ISBN: 9781444305951
parent-ISBN: 9780631220824
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Internet download file size: 2126 kb
Published: 03-2009
Released online for download: 03-30-2009
Author of eBook: Adams, James Eli

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A History of Victorian Literature

Chapter One

"The Times are Unexampled": Literature in the Age of Machinery, 1830-1850

Constructing the Man of Letters

"The whole world here is doing a Tarantula Dance of Political Reform, and has no ear left for literature." So Carlyle complained to Goethe in August of 1831 (Carlyle 1970-2006: v.327). He was not alone: the great stir surrounding prospects for electoral reform seemed for the moment to crowd aside all other literary interests. The agitation, however, helped to shape a model of critical reflection that gave new weight to literature. The sense of historical rupture announced on all sides was on this view fundamentally a crisis of belief - what a later generation would call an ideological crisis. Traditional forms of faith that under-girded both the English state and personal selfhood were giving way; the times required not merely new political arrangements, but new grounds of identity and belief. Of course, that very ... read full excerpt from A History of Victorian Literature ebook

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Literary Criticism General (136)

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Ancient and Classical (72)

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Drama (47)

English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh (278)

European (113)

Poetry (52)

Semiotics & Theory (40)

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