The Victorian Age In Literature

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
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Release : 2022-10-26
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The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. Chesterton Pdf

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Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
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Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1015566243

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The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. Chesterton Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781473369603

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The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. Chesterton Pdf

This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1913. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as a freelance journalist. Over the course of his life, his literary output was incredibly diverse and highly prolific, ranging from philosophy and ontology to art criticism and detective fiction. However, he is probably best-remembered for his Christian apologetics, most notably in Orthodoxy (1908) and The Everlasting Man (1925). We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Hugh Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1077 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107600485

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The Literature of the Victorian Era by Hugh Walker Pdf

Originally published in 1910, this book provides a detailed introduction to Victorian literature and the context in which it was created. The main body of the text analyses the general trends in poetry and prose during the period, providing individual chapters on major literary figures such as Tennyson, Browning, Dickens and Thackeray. Key aspects in Victorian thought are also discussed, covering a variety of philosophical, theological and scientific ideas. This is a fascinating text that will be of value to anyone with an interest in Victorian literature and the development of literary criticism.

Author : Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret),Francis Romano Oliphant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4109873

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The Victorian Age of English Literature by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret),Francis Romano Oliphant Pdf

Author : Robin Gilmour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317871316

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The Victorian Period by Robin Gilmour Pdf

This is a thought-provoking synthesis of the Victorian period, focusing on the themes of science, religion, politics and art. It examines the developments which radically changed the intellectual climate and illustrates how their manifestations permeated Victorian literature. The author begins by establishing the social and institutional framework in which intellectual and cultural life developed. Special attention is paid to the reform agenda of new groups which challenged traditional society, and this perspective informs Gilmour's discussion throughout the book. He assesses Victorian religion, science and politics in their own terms and in relation to the larger cultural politics of the middle-class challenge to traditionalism. Familiar topics, such as the Oxford Movement and Darwinism, are seen afresh, and those once neglected areas which are now increasingly important to modern scholars are brought into clear focus, such as Victorian agnosticism, the politics of gender, 'Englishness', and photography. The most innovative feature of this compelling study is the prominence given to the contemporary preoccupation with time. The Victorians' time-hauntedness emerges as the defining feature of their civilisation - the remote time of geology and evolution, the public time of history, the private time of autobiography.

Author : Michael Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317896081

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English Fiction of the Victorian Period by Michael Wheeler Pdf

Professor Wheeler's widely-acclaimed survey of the nineteenth-century fiction covers both the major writers and their works and encompasses the genres and "minor" fiction of the period. This excellent introduction and reference source has been revised for this second edition to include new material on lesser-known writers and a comprehensively updated bibliography.

Author : Lauren M. E. Goodlad
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801881541

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Victorian Literature and the Victorian State by Lauren M. E. Goodlad Pdf

Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to nineteenth-century Britain, with its decentralized, voluntarist institutional culture and passionate disdain for state interference. Focusing on a wide range of Victorian writing—from literary figures such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Harriet Martineau, J. S. Mill, Anthony Trollope, and H. G. Wells to prominent social reformers such as Edwin Chadwick, Thomas Chalmers, Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, and Beatrice Webb—Goodlad shows that Foucault's later essays on liberalism and "governmentality" provide better critical tools for understanding the nineteenth-century British state. Victorian Literature and the Victorian State delves into contemporary debates over sanitary, education, and civil service reform, the Poor Laws, and the century-long attempt to substitute organized charity for state services. Goodlad's readings elucidate the distinctive quandary of Victorian Britain and, indeed, any modern society conceived in liberal terms: the elusive quest for a "pastoral" agency that is rational, all-embracing, and effective but also anti-bureaucratic, personalized, and liberatory. In this study, impressively grounded in literary criticism, social history, and political theory, Goodlad offers a timely post-Foucauldian account of Victorian governance that speaks to the resurgent neoliberalism of our own day.

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066444679

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The Victorian Age in Literature by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Pdf

This is an engaging and personal account where G. K. Chesterton expounds his views on Victorian literature, which was during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). A lot of his opinions reflect the traditions of the age. However, he refreshingly comments on the Victorian novel saying, "it is an art in which women are quite beyond controversy." This book is an invaluable landmark in understanding an age that produced some of Britain's most widely enjoyed literature.

Author : Claudia Nelson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421406121

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Precocious Children and Childish Adults by Claudia Nelson Pdf

Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period. Though far from ubiquitous, the terms “child-woman,” “child-man,” and “old-fashioned child” appear often enough in Victorian writings to prompt critical questions about the motivations and meanings of such generational border crossings. Nelson carefully considers the use of these terms and connects invocations of age inversion to developments in post-Darwinian scientific thinking and attitudes about gender roles, social class, sexuality, power, and economic mobility. She brilliantly analyzes canonical works of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside lesser-known writings to demonstrate the diversity of literary age inversion and its profound influence on Victorian culture. By considering the full context of Victorian age inversion, Precocious Children and Childish Adults illuminates the complicated pattern of anxiety and desire that creates such ambiguity in the writings of the time. Scholars of Victorian literature and culture, as well as readers interested in children’s literature, childhood studies, and gender studies, will welcome this excellent work from a major figure in the field.

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783849677787

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The Victorian Age in Literature by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Pdf

Mr. Chesterton's contribution to the Home University Library Series is not a discussion of literature in the Victorian Age, but of the significance of the Victorian Age in literature. He takes up separately, it is true, the great names of the period and succeeds in giving a singularly rounded and integral impression of each of several noted writers. But the whole takes on a unity distinct and impressive, due to the author's very clear conception of the age and the part which its literature as a whole played in modern development.

Author : Гилберт Кит Честертон
Publisher : Litres
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040758326

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The Victorian Age in Literature by Гилберт Кит Честертон Pdf

Author : James Eli Adams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470672396

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A History of Victorian Literature by James Eli Adams Pdf

Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors. Part of the Blackwell Histories of Literature series, the book describes the development of the Victorian literary movement and places it within its cultural, social and political context. A wide-ranging narrative overview of literature in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, capturing the extraordinary variety of literary output produced during this era Analyzes the development of all literary forms during this period - the novel, poetry, drama, autobiography and critical prose - in conjunction with major developments in social and intellectual history Considers the ways in which writers engaged with new forms of social responsibility in their work, as Britain transformed into the world's first industrial economy Offers a fresh perspective on the work of both major figures and some of the era’s less familiar authors Winner of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award, 2009

Author : Gilbert Chesterton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 172263412X

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The Victorian Age in Literature by Gilbert Chesterton Pdf

The Victorian Age in Literature By Gilbert Chesterton A section of a long and splendid literature can be most conveniently treated in one of two ways. It can be divided as one cuts a currant cake or a Gruyère cheese, taking the currants (or the holes) as they come. Or it can be divided as one cuts wood-along the grain: if one thinks that there is a grain. But the two are never the same: the names never come in the same order in actual time as they come in any serious study of a spirit or a tendency. The critic who wishes to move onward with the life of an epoch, must be always running backwards and forwards among its mere dates; just as a branch bends back and forth continually; yet the grain in the branch runs true like an unbroken river. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1331000173

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The Victorian Age in Literature (Classic Reprint) by G. K. Chesterton Pdf

Excerpt from The Victorian Age in Literature A section of a long and splendid literature can be most conveniently treated in one of two ways. It can be divided as one cuts a currant cake or a Gruyere cheese, taking the currants (or the holes) as they come. Or it can be divided as one cuts wood - along the grain: if one thinks that there is a grain. But the two are never the same: the names never come in the same order in actual time as they come in any serious study of a spirit or a tendency. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.