Outlines of Victorian Literature
Published on 18. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
234 pages
978-1-107-60009-6 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1913, Outlines of Victorian Literature was co-authored by Professor Hugh Walker and his wife and was based upon the former's earlier and larger volume, The Literature of the Victorian Era. The aim here was to furnish a clearly worded and accessible introduction to the subject of Victorian literature and to stimulate interest in the lives of the different writers and their works. The types of literature examined include novels and poetry, but also extend to works of biography, criticism, history, theology, philosophy and even science with a particular focus on the works of Charles Darwin. This volume will be of value to anyone wishing to know more about how Victorian literature was received and understood at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
286 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-60009-6 (9781107600096)
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Content
Part I. Carlyle and the Systematic Thinkers: 1. Carlyle; 2. The theologians; 3. The philosophers; 4. Science; Part II. Poetry: 5. Some pre-Victorian poets; 6. Tennyson; 7. Browning; 8. Minor singers; 9. The turn of the century; 10. The later Pre-Raphaelites; 11. The Celtic poets; 12. The remaining poets; Part III. Novels and Novelists: 13. The successors of Scott; 14. Dickens; 15. Thackeray; 16. Women novelists; 17. Contemporaries of Dickens and Thackeray; 18. George Meredith; 19. Other story-tellers; 20. R. L. Stevenson; 21. Stories for children; Part IV. The Historians: 22. The revolution in the writing of history; 23. Students of the origins; 24. Ancient history; 25. Hallam and Macaulay; 26. Froude; 27. The Oxford group; 28. The philosophical historians; 29. Military history; Part V. Biography and Criticism: 30. The biographers; 31. The Edinburgh critics; 32. Leigh Hunt and De Quincey; 33. Matthew Arnold; 34. Brown, Stephen and Henley; 35. The criticism of art; Part VI. The Fragments that Remain: 36. Landor and minor writers; 37. Travel and geography; 38. Oscar Wilde; Index.