British Victorian LiteratureCritical AssessmentsShiv K. Kumar British Victorian literature: critical assessments is a cross-section of some of the most insightful and perceptive critical writings ever published on a very complex period in English literary history. Divided into five sections Victorianism, poetry, fiction, prose and criticism and drama This selection offers a comprehensive survey of the Victorian age in literature.It is hoped that all students of advanced English literature will find this book immensely useful. British Victorian literature: critical assessments is a cross-section of some of the most insightful and perceptive critical writings ever published on a very complex period in English literary history. Divided into five sections Victorianism, poetry, fiction, prose and criticism and drama This selection offers a comprehensive survey of the Victorian age in literature.It is hoped that all students of advanced English literature will find this book immensely useful. |
Contents
Victorianism | 3 |
Towards a Definition of Victorian Activism | 17 |
Communication and the Victorian Poet | 39 |
The Intellectual Quest of the Victorian Poets | 53 |
A Study of Brownings | 70 |
The Moment in the Dramatic Monologues | 91 |
Artifice and Image | 103 |
A Central Concept | 112 |
Hardys Major Fiction | 267 |
Charlotte and Emily Brontë | 281 |
The Novels of George Meredith | 299 |
Henry James and the Trapped Spectator | 315 |
The Private Universe | 331 |
Pattern and Direction | 345 |
Thomas Carlyle | 357 |
Newman and the Oxford Movement | 380 |
Equilibrium in the Poetry of Matthew Arnold | 131 |
Kipling | 145 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins | 160 |
The Modern Values of Victorian Fiction | 195 |
Determinism and Responsibility in the Works | 215 |
The Heroes and Heroines of Dickens | 243 |
Lytton Stracheys Conception of Biography | 408 |
Matthew Arnold | 435 |
Walter Paters Literary Theory and Criticism | 457 |
The Divided Self in the Society Comedies | 481 |
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