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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[1955, c1913]
Description
A fascinating survey of Victorian literature from one of England's greatest minds Dishing out his signature brand of harsh wit, G. K. Chesterton casts a critical eye on the poets and novelists that defined the Victorian age in English literature. "Her imagination was sometimes superhuman - always inhuman," he writes of Emily Brontë. "Wuthering Heights might have been written by an eagle." Ranging from sharp denunciation to genuine admiration, Chesterton...
Author
Publisher
G. Bell and Sons
Pub. Date
1900
Description
This 1897 volume is a survey of British literature from 1830 to 1870. Of this period, Walker writes: "Next to the eighteenth century, the age of Tennyson has been the most critical in our literature." Includes studies of the works of Carlyle, Tennyson, Dickens, Thackeray, the Bröntes, Macaulay, and Arnold among others.
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
1917
Description
This volume includes a number of essays about various elements in famous authors' works. One essay analyzes the use of Theodore Dreiser's "Barbaric Naturalism." Dreiser was most known for his use of naturalism. Naturalism was a literary movement or tendency from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Rock stars, rappers, and actors haven't always had a monopoly on misbehaving. There was a time when authors fought with both words and fists, a time when poets were the ones living fast and dying young. This witty, insightful and wildly entertaining narrative profiles the literary greats who wrote generation-defining classics such as The Great Gatsby and On the Road while living and loving like hedonistic rock icons, who were as likely to go on epic...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1987
Description
Examining the works of such Victorian writers as the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and Hardy, Michie discusses the codes and taboos which distance the reader from the female body, allowing 'safe' bodily parts - like hands - and 'safe' physical activities - like eating - to stand for other, unspeakable aspects of female physicality. She reveals how these codes function as safe textual spaces for the entrance of the seemingly excluded female body,...
