Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism
Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism

Author: Laurie Lanzen Harris

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13:

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Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and other creative writers who lived between 1800 and 1900, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations.

Classical Victorians
Classical Victorians

Author: Edmund Richardson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-02-07

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 113962010X

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Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It is the story of the headmaster who bludgeoned his wife to death, then calmly sat down to his Latin. It is the story of the embittered classical prodigy who turned to gin and opium - and the virtuoso forger who fooled the greatest scholars of the age. It is a history of hope: a general who longed to be an Homeric hero, a bankrupt poet who longed to start a revolution. Victorian classicism was defined by hope - but shaped by uncertainty. Packed with forgotten characters and texts, with the roar of the burlesque-stage and the mud of the battlefield, this book offers a rich insight into nineteenth-century culture and society. It explores just how difficult it is to stake a claim on the past.

Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope

Author: Nicholas Birns

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-10-20

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 147664425X

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Anthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines outsiders who would be viewed with suspicion by his readers. Trollope's profound insight to human nature made him the first novelist in English to develop three dimensional characters and to create the novel sequence. This literary companion introduces readers to his life and work. A-to-Z entries explore Trollope's short story collections, and nonfiction contributions, as well as important themes in the works. This companion also includes fresh voices of contributors that bring in their contemporary insights to bear on Trollope's achievements, facilitating the understanding of Trollope's perspectives in relation to feminism, queer studies, and transnationalism.

The Age of Analogy
The Age of Analogy

Author: Devin Griffiths

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2016-10-28

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1421420767

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Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson

Author: Laurence W. Mazzeno

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-08-31

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 147664084X

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Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today. Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division and graduate-level topics courses that cover Victorian studies or address subjects such as environmental studies, religion, elegiac poetry, and Arthurian literature. This companion makes Tennyson's poetry accessible to contemporary readers by identifying some of the formal elements of the poems, highlighting their relevance to Tennyson's Victorian contemporaries, and explaining their enduring appeal and value. Entries in the companion, organized alphabetically, provide essential details about Tennyson's most anthologized poems, offer suggestions for reading and interpretation, and elucidate unfamiliar historical and literary allusions. Additional entries, a biography of Tennyson, and a selected bibliography of recent criticism offer information about the people, places, events, and issues that influenced Tennyson or were important to him and his contemporaries.

Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness
Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness

Author: Susan Matthews

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-04-07

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 052151357X

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Examines Blake's place within a bourgeois culture in the process of redefining the role and meaning of sexuality.