The "Alice" book is oneof the most translated, most quoted, and best-known book in the world. Alice's encounters with the White Rabbit, the Cheshire-Cat, the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, and many other extraordinary characters have made them beloved by children. Yet they also appeal to adults fascinated by the many layers of satire, allusion, and symbolism about Victorian culture and politics.
The Complete Poetic and Dramatic works of Robert Browning
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Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
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This original book contains beautiful chromolithograph illustrations. The children`s poetry and stories of Mabel and Rose traveling through France. An excellent example of the styles and architecture around the time period of 1882. Thomas Crane was the Art Director for Marcus Ward & Co., and was the elder brother of illustrator/ artist Walter Crane; Houghton was their cousin. Poems about a family of Victorian children on their first trip abroad, a visit to Northern France and Paris. A high spot of Victorian color printing.
What does it mean to be human? British writers in the Victorian period found a surprising answer to this question. What is human, they discovered, is nothing more or less than the human body itself. In literature of the period, as well as in scientific writing and journalism, the notion of an interior human essence came to be identified with the material existence of the body. The organs of sensory perception were understood as crucial routes of exchange between the interior and the external worlds.
How do we read a novel?—this is the question which lies behind a new collection of essays on the Victorian novel written by members of the English Board of Studies at the University of Kent. It is a question which leads into a consideration of what happens to our critical judgements in the process of reading, as we turn the pages over and begin to build the detail into form. The Victorian novel provides a particularly rich source for this kind of interest. We are made to think about what it is like to read a long novel, a novel which is illustrated, a novel published in a serial form.
