The Victorians
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The Victorians
（The Penguin history of literature, v. 6）
Penguin, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [499]-543
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Victorian age was one whose principal tenets were progress and individualism, and one characterized by Tennyson as "an awful moment of transition". In this volume introductory essays on aspects of Victorian thought, faith and doubt lead into chapters on the major novelists and poets of the period, as well as pieces on women prose-writers, fantasy and nonsense, the Victorian theatre and the "fin de siecle". "The Penguin History of Literature" is a critical survey of English and American literature in ten volumes. Each volume is a collection of original essays specially commissioned for the series, which, taken together, cover 14 centuries of literature from the Anglo-Saxons to the present.
Table of Contents
- Victorian thought, A.O.J. Cockshut
- faith and doubt in the Victorian age, A.O.J. Cockshut
- Mathew Arnold (and A.H. Clough), Kenneth Allott
- Dickens, Alan Shelston
- Surtees, Thackeray and Trollope, Arthur Pollard
- the Brontes, Wendy A. Carik
- Mrs Gaskell and George Eliot, Barbara Hardy
- Victorian women prose-writers, Marion Shaw
- mid-Victorian novelists, Sheila Smith and Peter Denman
- fantasy and nonsense, Gillian Avery
- later Victorian novelists, Patric M. Yarker and Owen Knowles
- Tennyson (and Fitzgerald), John Killham
- the Brownings, Isobel Armstrong
- Hopkins, Norman H. MacKenzie
- the Rossettis and other contemporary poets, James Sambrook
- aspects of the "Fin De Siecle", Bernard Bergonzi
- the Victorian theare, Cecil J.L. Price.
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