Victorian Literature: From 1830 To 1900
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A cornerstone of the acclaimed Bloomsbury Guides to English Literature series, Victorian Literature: From 1830 to 1900 presents an authoritative and comprehensive survey of one of the most fertile and tumultuous periods in British literary history. The guide chronicles the full arc of Victorian writing, from the early reformist energies of the 1830s through the aesthetic and decadent movements that closed the century, encompassing the fiction of Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, the poetry of Tennyson and Browning, and the dramatic works that reshaped the English stage. Rigorous in its scholarship yet accessible in its approach, this volume argues for the Victorian era as a crucible of modernity — a period in which literature grappled urgently with industrialisation, empire, class, gender, and faith. The guide instructs students and enthusiasts alike in the critical frameworks necessary to appreciate these works in their full historical and cultural context, illustrating how Victorian authors both reflected and challenged the dominant ideologies of their age. An indispensable companion for any serious reader of nineteenth-century literature, it raises the question: how much of the Victorian world still shapes the one we inhabit today?
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Format: Hardback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
A cornerstone of the acclaimed Bloomsbury Guides to English Literature series, Victorian Literature: From 1830 to 1900 presents an authoritative and comprehensive survey of one of the most fertile and tumultuous periods in British literary history. The guide chronicles the full arc of Victorian writing, from the early reformist energies of the 1830s through the aesthetic and decadent movements that closed the century, encompassing the fiction of Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, the poetry of Tennyson and Browning, and the dramatic works that reshaped the English stage. Rigorous in its scholarship yet accessible in its approach, this volume argues for the Victorian era as a crucible of modernity — a period in which literature grappled urgently with industrialisation, empire, class, gender, and faith. The guide instructs students and enthusiasts alike in the critical frameworks necessary to appreciate these works in their full historical and cultural context, illustrating how Victorian authors both reflected and challenged the dominant ideologies of their age. An indispensable companion for any serious reader of nineteenth-century literature, it raises the question: how much of the Victorian world still shapes the one we inhabit today?