James Eli Adams, A History of Victorian Literature, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, 478 p.
- ISBN: 978-0-631-22082-4 Hardcover
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Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literaturepresents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britainbetween 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figuresand some of the era's less familiar authors. Part of the BlackwellHistories of Literature series, the book describes the development ofthe Victorian literary movement and places it within its cultural,social and political context.
- A wide-ranging narrative overview of literature in Great Britainbetween 1830 and 1900, capturing the extraordinary variety of literaryoutput produced during this era
- Analyzes the development of all literary forms during thisperiod - the novel, poetry, drama, autobiography and critical prose -in conjunction with major developments in social and intellectualhistory
- Considers the ways in which writers engaged with new forms ofsocial responsibility in their work, as Britain transformed into theworld's first industrial economy
- Offers a fresh perspective on the work of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors
James Eli Adams teaches in the English Department at Cornell, where he is Director of Graduate Studies. He is the author of Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity (1995); the general editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era (2004); and co-editor of Sexualities in Victorian Britain (1996).
Sommaire:
Preface.
Note on Citations.
Introduction: Locating Victorian Literature.
Byron is Dead.
Cultural Contexts.
The Literary Field.
An Age of Prose.
The Situation of Poetry.
Victorian Theater.
The Novel After Scott.
1. “The Times are Unexampled”: Literature.
in the Age of Machinery, 1830–1850.
Constructing the Man of Letters.
The Burdens of Poetry.
Theater in the 1830s.
Fiction in the Early 1830s.
Dickens and the Forms of Fiction.
Poetry after the Annuals.
Literature of Travel.
History and Heroism.
Social Crisis and the Novel.
The Domestic Ideal.
From Silver-Fork to Farce.
Poetry in the Early 1840s.
The Literature of Labor.
Medievalism.
“The Two Nations”.
“What's Money After All?”.
Romance and Religion.
The Novel of Development.
Art, Politics, and Faith.
In Memoriam.
2. Crystal Palace and Bleak House: Expansion.
and Anomie, 1851–1873.
The Novel and Society.
Crimea and the Forms of Heroism.
Empire.
Spasmodics and Other Poets.
The Power of Art.
Realisms.
Two Guineveres.
Sensation.
Dreams of Self-Fashioning.
Narrating Nature: Darwin.
Novels and their Audiences.
Literature for Children.
Poetry in the Early 1860s.
Criticism and Belief.
The Pleasures of the Difficult.
The Hellenic Tradition.
Domesticity, Politics, Empire, and the Novel.
After Dickens.
The Persistence of Epic.
Poisonous Honey and Fleshly Poetry.
3. The Rise of Mass Culture and the Specter.
of Decline, 1873–1901.
Science, Materialism, and Value.
Twilight of the Poetic Titans.
The Decline of the Marriage Plot.
The Aesthetic Movement Aesthetic Poetry.
Life-Writing.
Morality and the Novel.
Romance.
Regionalism.
The Arrival of Kipling.
Fiction and the Forms of Belief.
Sex, Science, and Danger.
Fictions of the Artist.
Decadence.
Drama in the 1880s.
The New Woman in Fiction.
Decadent Form.
The Poetry of London.
Yeats.
The Scandal of Wilde.
Poetry After Wilde.
Fictions of Decline.
Conrad.
Epilogue.
Works Cited.
Index.