Outlines of Victorian Literature

This volume is a clearly worded and accessible introduction to the subject of Victorian literature.

Hugh Walker (Author), Mrs Hugh Walker (Author)

9781107600096, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 November 2011

234 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.4 cm, 0.26 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]