
Romantics and Victorians
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Published on 24. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-84966-624-4 (ISBN)
Description
The second volume in the Reading and Studying Literature series, co-published with the Open University, introduces students to European romanticism and Victorian culture. Each period is discussed in terms of an overarching theme, providing a clear focus for study and discussion and introducing readers to an important theoretical concept in literary studies.
European romanticism is approached through a consideration of the evolution of the idea of the romantic author and the romantic inner life, using readings from Wordsworth on Grasmere, Shelley lyric poetry and Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater. The book goes on to explore Victorian culture through a reading of ideas of 'home' and 'abroad', in the work of Emily Bronte, Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson. The featured theoretical concept of this volume is 'the author'.
European romanticism is approached through a consideration of the evolution of the idea of the romantic author and the romantic inner life, using readings from Wordsworth on Grasmere, Shelley lyric poetry and Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater. The book goes on to explore Victorian culture through a reading of ideas of 'home' and 'abroad', in the work of Emily Bronte, Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson. The featured theoretical concept of this volume is 'the author'.
Reviews / Votes
This guide offers an intensive induction into the treatment of self and other (but mainly self) in the nineteenth century. -- Jane Stabler * Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 188 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
1280 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84966-624-4 (9781849666244)
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Persons
Nicola J. Watson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open University, UK.
Shafquat Towheed is Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open University, UK.
Shafquat Towheed is Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open University, UK.
Author
Senior LecturerOpen University, Milton Keynes
LecturerOpen University
Content
Part 1: Romantic lives: Wordsworth: Poet in a landscape | Shelley: A life in poetry | De Quincey: Journalist in the city | Hoffmann and Pushkin: Tormented and divided selves | Part 2: Home and abroad in the Victorian age, c. 1832-1901: Wuthering Heights (1847) | Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four (1890) | Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Beach of Falesa' (1892-3)