Mid-Victorian studies

Author(s)

• Tillotson, Geoffrey
• Tillotson, Kathleen Mary

Bibliographic Information

Mid-Victorian studies

Geoffrey Tillotson and Kathleen Tillotson

（Bloomsbury academic collections, . English literary criticism ; 18th-19th centuries）

Bloomsbury, 2013

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Reprint. Originally published: London : Athlone Press, 1965

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of lectures, broadcasts, reviews, and articles (several of which have not previously been published) embraces many aspects of the English literary scene in the middle of the nineteenth century. Though various in origin the collection has this unity: it has been the constant concern of its authors for many years that the great and lasting contribution of the mid-Victorian period to our literature should be fully vindicated, and its appraisal based upon secure foundations of critical scholarship. The book has moreover an obvious connection with the volume on the mid-nineteenth century which the Tillotsons are preparing for the Oxford History of English Literature, though the items included here are not samples of that history but rather 'milestones, or halting places, in the several ways that lead towards it'. There are important studies of Carlyle, John Henry Newman, Tennyson, Clough, Matthew Arnold, and George Eliot. These, however, represent only one side of the book's interest, for there are accounts of writers famous in their day, as Harriett Mozley and Charlotte M. Yonge, but since the cross-currents at work in the period, notably 'Writers and Readers in 1851', which vividly convey much of the quality of the momentous years in which so many masterpieces were produced. At several points indeed the volume demonstrates that the truth about the literature of the nineteenth century, in distinction (for the most part) to that of earlier centuries, may be recovered complete.

Table of Contents

I The Tale and the Teller II Novelists and Near-Novelists III Harriett Mozley IV The Heir of Redclyffe V Trollope's Style VI The George Eliot Letters I VII The George Eliot Letters II VIII The George Eliot Letters III IX Tennyson's Serial Poem X A Word for Browning XI Clough's Bothie XII Clough: Thought and Action XIII Matthew Arnold in Our Time XIV 'Yes, in the Sea of Life' XV Rugby 1850: Arnold, Clough, Walrond and In Memoriam XVI Arnold: The Lecturer and Journalist XVII Swinburne XVIII Matthew Arnold and Carlyle XIX Newman: The Writer XX Newman: Thought and Action XXI Newman in his Letters XXII Donne's Poetry in the Nineteenth Century XXIII The Victorian Frame of Mind XXIV Writers and Readers in 1851 Index

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Details

• NCID: BB15625535
• ISBN:
  • 9781472507136
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 335 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC18 : 820.9008
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB11561849