A Victorian Reader
Peter Faulkner(Author)
Batsford (Publisher)
Published on 28. July 1999
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7134-5804-6 (ISBN)
Description
Contained in this volume are key extracts from Victorian writers and critics essential in the understanding of the principles on which the literature of the age was written. The passages selected reveal the leading preoccupations and issues of the period 1830-70, be they the gradual displacement of poetry by the novel; the debate over subject-matter, which pitted the exponents of artistic freedom against the defendants of public morality; or the increasing importance of women writers, which is seen in the context of the patriarchal assumptions which lay behind male critical positions of the period.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
further reading list, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7134-5804-6 (9780713458046)
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Content
From "On some of the characteristics of modern poetry", 1831, Arthur Henry Hallam; "the two kinds of poetry", 1833; from a review of Tennyson's poems, 1835, John Stewart Mill; the preface to Philip van Artevelde, 1834, Henry Taylor; "on art in fiction", 1838, Edward Bulwer Lytton; from "the hero as man of letters", 1841, Thomas Carlyle; the author's introduction to the third edition of "Oliver Twist", 1841, Charles Dickens; the preface to the second edition of "Jane Eyre", 1847; from a letter of W.S.Williams, 1850; the editor's preface to the new edition of "Wuthering Heights", 1850, Charlotte Bronte; from "Catherine", 1839-40; from a letter to Mark Lemmon, 1847; the preface to "Pendennis", 1850; from "The Newcomes", 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray; the preface to "Mary Barton", 1818; from a letter to the author of "The Three Paths", 1859, Elizabeth Gaskell; from "Essay on Shelley", 1852, Robert Browning; from a review of recent poetry, 1853, Arthur Hugh Clough; from letters to A.H.Clough 1848-50; the preface to the first edition of "Poems", 1853; the preface to the second edition, 1854; from Heine in "Essays in Criticism", 1865, Matthew Arnold; on the "Pathetic Fallacy", 1856; from a letter to Tennyson, 1859; Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot); from "The Natural History of German Life", 1856; from "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists", 1854, John Ruskin; from "Aurora Leigh", 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; from "Realism in Art", 1858, George Henry Lewes; preface to the 1861 edition of "The Woman in White", 1861, Wilkie Collins; from "Sterne and Thackeray", 1862; from "Pure, Ornate and Grotesque Poetry", 1864, Walter Bagehot; from a review of Baudelaire, 1862; from "Notes on Poems and Reviews", 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne; from "Mr Swinburne's New Poems", 1866, John Morley; from "Poems by William Morris", 1868, Walter Pater.