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U C Knoepflmacher
Drawing together essays on nineteenth-century literature written and published between 1963 and 2012, Victorians Reading the Romantics offers a compelling new perspective on the long and influential publishing career and…
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U. C. Knoepflmacher
Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales lurks the spectre of a 19th-century debate about the very nature of childhood. This study offers re-readings of Victorian classics, probing deeply…
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Contents: I. Religion, evolution, and the novel; 1. 1888 and a look backwards; 2. George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Samuel Butler: three types of search; II. George Eliot: the search…
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Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass , lurks the spectre of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. The…
This study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial Revolution, wrestled in her early novels with the esthetic problems of reconciling…
A collection of eleven fairy tales by Victorian women.
The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori (Byron’s physician) spent a wet, ungenial summer in the Swiss Alps. Byron suggested that each write a ghost…
Students and scholars of postcolonial and Victorian literature and culture will welcome the availability of this fine collection.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sara Crewe is an exceptional student at Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies. When her adored and indulgent father dies, she is banished to a room in the attic…
