The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction
The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

Author: John Sutherland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 131786333X

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With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and a generous selection of images have been chosen to illustrate various aspects of Victorian publishing, writing, and reading life. Organised alphabetically, the information provided will be a boon to students, researchers and all lovers of reading. The entries, though concise, meet the high standards demanded by modern scholarship. The writing - marked by Sutherland's characteristic combination of flair, clarity and erudition - is of such a high standard that the book is a joy to read, as well as a definitive work of reference.

A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged)
A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged)

Author: Montague Summers

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-03-06

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 375048144X

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An important and unique work about Gothic fiction, by"the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction", Montague Summers.

An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism
An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism

Author: Catharine Esther Beecher

Publisher:

Published: 1837

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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Although Beecher takes issue with the call for women's active involvement in the abolition movement, her discussion reveals the inter-relationship between 19th century abolitionism and 19th century feminism.

The Common Writer
The Common Writer

Author: Nigel Cross

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1988-06-09

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780521357210

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This book examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century. It provides a detailed account on the social, cultural, and economic factors that control literary activity, and determine literary success or failure. There are chapters on the place of women and working-class writers in a predominantly male, middle-class publishing industry; on literary clubs, societies, and feuds; on patronage, charity, and state support for writers; on literary journalists and the development of the bohemian character; on the facts that inspired the fictional world of Thackeray's Pendennis and Gissing's New Grub Street; and on the long-running debates on the status of writers and the state of literature. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, The Common Writer adds substantially to our understanding of nineteenth-century literary history and culture.