Download or read book The Oxford History of English Literature Horsman A The Victorian novel written by Frank Percy Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Victorian Novel written by Ernest Alan Horsman and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the great novelists of the high Victorian age, from the death of Scott in 1832 to the death of George Eliot in 1880. In this period, as the political unease of the first two decades of the century gave way to stability, the novel came into its own. Providing an overview of both the major and minor novelists, The Victorian Novel devotes separate chapters to Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Trollope, and Meredith and sets the writers and their works against the social and historical background that produced them. A chronological table shows the other literary works and events of this popular time in English writing.
Download or read book The Victorian Novel written by Francis O'Gorman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Download or read book English Fiction of the Victorian Period written by Michael Wheeler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Victorian Novel written by Ernest Alan Horsman and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the great novelists of the high Victorian age, from the death of Scott in 1832 to the death of George Eliot in 1880. In this period, as the political unease of the first two decades of the century gave way to stability, the novel came into its own. Providing an overview of both the major and minor novelists, The Victorian Novel devotes separate chapters to Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Trollope, and Meredith and sets the writers and their works against the social and historical background that produced them. A chronological table shows the other literary works and events of this popular time in English writing.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel written by Lisa Rodensky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked.
Download or read book History of Oxford University Press Volume III written by Ian Anders Gadd and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. This third volume begins with the establishment of the New York office in 1896. It traces the expansion of OUP in America, Australia, Asia, and Africa, and far-reaching changes in the business and technology of publishing up to 1970.
Download or read book The Oxford History of the Novel in English written by John Kucich and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by Nancy S. Weyant and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies biographies, newly discovered correspondence, critical works, and other bibliographies. An extensive subject index provides easy access to 350 entries.
Download or read book The Short Oxford History of English Literature written by Andrew Sanders and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Short Oxford History of English Literature 2e provides a comprehensive beginners guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day in one volume. This book is an established introduction to English literature, with separate chapters tracing the development from Beowulf to the post-modern fictions of Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter including a new section on late 20th century prose and British and Irish poetry of the 60s. The Historyprovides detailed discussion of Old and Middle English literature, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing. Discussions of key writers and works from Anselm and Chaucer to Spenser andBunyan, and from Swift and Johnson to Dickens and DH Lawrence, are combined with analysis of the impact on literature of contemporary political, social, and intellectual developments. The book includes Scottish, Irish, and Welsh writers, and it asks about the future of the canon in the light of thefragmented condition of British writing in the post-imperial period. Lively, accessible, and up-to-date, The Short Oxford History of English Literature will be an invaluable source for general readers and a key textbook for sixth-form students, first year undergraduates, and foreign students of English literature.
Download or read book Loss and Gain written by John Henry Newman and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attending Oxford University in the 1840s, Charles Reding, a young student, must decide about his own spiritual commitment.
Download or read book Shakespeare and Dickens written by Valerie L. Gager and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-06 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1996 book traces Dickens' interest in Shakespeare through his own reading and performance and through theatrical, literary and artistic sources.
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Download or read book Germany as Model and Monster written by Gisela Argyle and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-06-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the works of George Eliot, Carlyle, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Meredith, George Gissing, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, and D.H. Lawrence, as well as several post-World War II novels, Argyle explores the Goethean ideal of Bildung and the Bildungsroman (self-culture and the apprenticeship novel), Heinrich Heine's anti-philistinism, music, the Tübingen higher criticism, Schopenhauer's and Nietzsche's philosophies, Prussianism, and avant-garde culture in the Weimar Republic. To establish the status of these allusions in the public conversation, Argyle moves between literary and extra-literary contexts, including biographical material about the authors as well as information from contemporary literary works, periodical articles, and other documentation that indicates the understanding authors could assume from their readers. Her methodology combines theories of allusion and intertextuality with reception theory.
Download or read book Art and Society in the Victorian Novel written by Colin Gibson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-01-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Outline of English Literature written by Pat Rogers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the highly successful Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, this book traces the course of English literature from the earliest Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day. Each chapter is written by an expert, and contains a lively discussion of the most importantdevelopments and figures of a key literary period. Major figures such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Wordsworth, Eliot, and Auden are treated in depth, and the story is brought right up to date with discussion of contemporary authors such as Seamus Heaney, Martin Amis and Angela Carter. This new edition has been extended to include coverage of the 1980s and 90s, and the Further Reading sections for all the essays have been revised and updated.
Download or read book Reader s Guide to British History written by David Loades and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 4319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
