Outlines of Victorian Literature
Outlines of Victorian Literature

Author: Hugh Walker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-11-18

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 110760009X

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This volume is a clearly worded and accessible introduction to the subject of Victorian literature.

Victorian Literature
Victorian Literature

Author: Beth Palmer

Publisher: Longman

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781408204818

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An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the era, this companion explores influential dramatic works by Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde; the poetry of mourning; novelistic genres, including social problem novels and sensation fiction; and the literature of the "fin de siecle"'s aesthetes and decadents. Cultural and historical debates focussing on empire, national identity, science and evolution, print culture and gender supply essential context alongside discussion of relevant critical theory. "

The Victorian Illustrated Book
The Victorian Illustrated Book

Author: Richard Maxwell

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780813920979

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US scholars of literature explore how illustrated books became a cultural form of great importance in England and Scotland from the 1830s and 1840s to the end of the century. Some of them consider particular authors or editions, but others look at general themes such as illustrations of time, maps and metaphors, literal illustration, and city scenes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Literature of the Victorian Era
The Literature of the Victorian Era

Author: Hugh Walker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-06-16

Total Pages: 1077

ISBN-13: 1107600480

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Originally published in 1910, this book provides a detailed introduction to Victorian literature and the context in which it was created. The main body of the text analyses the general trends in poetry and prose during the period, providing individual chapters on major literary figures such as Tennyson, Browning, Dickens and Thackeray. Key aspects in Victorian thought are also discussed, covering a variety of philosophical, theological and scientific ideas. This is a fascinating text that will be of value to anyone with an interest in Victorian literature and the development of literary criticism.

Nobody's Story
Nobody's Story

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2018-10-12

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781728723785

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Nobody's Story (+Biography and Bibliography) (Matte Cover Finish): He lived on the bank of a mighty river, broad and deep, which was always silently rolling on to a vast undiscovered ocean. It had rolled on, ever since the world began. It had changed its course sometimes, and turned into new channels, leaving its old ways dry and barren; but it had ever been upon the flow, and ever was to flow until Time should be no more. Against its strong, unfathomable stream, nothing made head. No living creature, no flower, no leaf, no particle of animate or inanimate existence, ever strayed back from the undiscovered ocean. The tide of the river set resistlessly towards it; and the tide never stopped, any more than the earth stops in its circling round the sun