The Literature of the Victorian Era

This 1910 book provides a detailed introduction to Victorian literature and the context in which it was created.

Hugh Walker (Author)

9781107600485, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 June 2011

1076 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 5.4 cm, 1.05 kg

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.

Introduction: 1. The new age
2. The German influence: Thomas Carlyle
Part I. Speculative Thought: 3. Theology
4. Philosophy
5. Science
Part II. Creative Art
Section 1. Poetry: 6. The Interregnum in poetry
7. The new kings: Tennyson and Browning
8. The minor poets: earlier period
9. Tennyson
10. Browning
11. The turn of the century: new influences
12. Later developments
Section 2. Prose Fiction: 13. After Scott
14. Dickens and Thackeray
15. The women novelists
16. The later fiction
Part III. Et Cetera: 17. History and biography
18. Literary and aesthetic criticism
19. Miscellaneous prose
Index.

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