{"product_id":"a-history-of-victorian-literature-hardback-9780631220824","title":"A History of Victorian Literature (Hardback) 9780631220824","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA History of Victorian Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A signal work of literary historiography: broad and sound in its fabric, detail richly textured in its detail.... The sheer quantity of this comprehensive history is matched by the genial quality of the historian who comprehends it, and whose infectiously self-renewing enthusiasm makes great learning look like great fun. It has been many decades, and several major reorientations in critical scholarship, since we last saw a literary-historical synopsis on this scale.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eHerbert F. Tucker\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Virginia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Eli Adams (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631220824, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 March 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e480 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 3.3 cm, 0.844 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is a beautifully written, truly intelligent book that understands the Victorians. Reading this volume was a pleasure that brought home rather forcefully the relatively functional nature of so much professional academic prose.\" (\u003ci\u003eVictorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, Spring 2010)  \u003cp\u003e\"This elegant and far-reaching book offers a surprising source of optimism to those working in the humanities in Higher Education.\" (\u003ci\u003eDickens Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Throughout his prose is clear and unpretentious--in short, entirely appropriate for his intended audience. Though specialists may quibble over what Adams chooses to omit from this concise account, this book is a remarkable achievement.\" (\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e, October 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"...its breadth of coverage is staggering. It includes all the major figures and genres of the age, hosts of relatively minor authors and works, and all the important subgenres. Also, by placing the individual works in their ever-shifting literary and cultural milieus, it provides a depth of insight lacking in more narrowly conceived studies.... Also, it may well stimulate an exploration of the work of such important but neglected authors as Ainsworth, Disraeli and Bulwer-Lytton, not to mention such utterly forgotten authors as Catherine Gore. Adams, in fact, seems to have read so much of the relatively minor and currently neglected literature of the entire period, and writes about it with such gusto and infectious enthusiasm that he extends the breadth and depth of the entire field of Victorian studies and will doubtless inspire specialists as well as less advanced students of the period to read works they might otherwise have viewed as expendable. The book is indeed so replete with valuable insights into so many works and authors that the reader who has taken in its chronological sweep by reading from the introduction through the epilogue will undoubtedly return over and over again via the index to review the readings of particular works\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Books Online\u003c\/i\u003e, September 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIncorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, \u003ci\u003eA History of Victorian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA wide-ranging narrative overview of literature in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, capturing the extraordinary variety of literary output produced during this era\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyzes 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a fresh perspective on the work of both major figures and some of the era’s less familiar authors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of a \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title award, 2009\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e ix  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote on Citations\u003c\/i\u003e xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: Locating Victorian Literature\u003c\/b\u003e 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eByron is Dead 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Contexts 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Literary Field 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Age of Prose 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Situation of Poetry 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVictorian Theater 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Novel After Scott 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 \"The Times are Unexampled\": Literature in the Age of Machinery, 1830–1850\u003c\/b\u003e 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructing the Man of Letters 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Burdens of Poetry 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheater in the 1830s 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFiction in the Early 1830s 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDickens and the Forms of Fiction 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry after the Annuals 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiterature of Travel 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory and Heroism 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Crisis and the Novel 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Domestic Ideal 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Silver-Fork to Farce 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry in the Early 1840s 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Literature of Labor 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedievalism 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Two Nations\" 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"What's Money After All?\" 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRomance and Religion 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Novel of Development 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArt, Politics, and Faith 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Memoriam\u003c\/i\u003e 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Crystal Palace and \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003e: Expansion and Anomie, 1851–1873\u003c\/b\u003e 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Novel and Society 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrimea and the Forms of Heroism 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmpire 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpasmodics and Other Poets 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Power of Art 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealisms 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo Guineveres 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSensation 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDreams of Self-Fashioning 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarrating Nature: Darwin 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNovels and their Audiences 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiterature for Children 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry in the Early 1860s 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCriticism and Belief 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pleasures of the Difficult 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hellenic Tradition 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDomesticity, Politics, Empire, and the Novel 267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter Dickens 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Persistence of Epic 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoisonous Honey and Fleshly Poetry 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Rise of Mass Culture and the Specter of Decline, 1873–1901\u003c\/b\u003e 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience, Materialism, and Value 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwilight of the Poetic Titans 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Decline of the Marriage Plot 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Aesthetic Movement 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAesthetic Poetry 329\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLife-Writing 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMorality and the Novel 342\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRomance 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegionalism 356\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Arrival of Kipling 360\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFiction and the Forms of Belief 365\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSex, Science, and Danger 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFictions of the Artist 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDecadence 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrama in the 1880s 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Woman in Fiction 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDecadent Form 394\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poetry of London 400\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYeats 405\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Scandal of Wilde 408\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry After Wilde 411\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFictions of Decline 416\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConrad 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/i\u003e 429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/i\u003e 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e 451\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism 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