The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901.
Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period.
Explains issues such as Victorian religions, class structure, and Darwinism to those who are unfamiliar with them.
In the late nineteenth century the conventions of Victorian domesticity came under scrutiny by British writers, designers, artists, and architects intent on bringing a modern spirit into the home. Seeking to redefine the spaces of middle-class private life, figures such as E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, and Virginia Woolf attempted to rethink Victorian design and reconstruct the form, function, and meaning of the home to meet the demands of modernity. In this study, Rosner draws on a host of previously unexamined archival sources and reveals the many personal and aesthetic connections among modern British writers, interior designers, and architects, elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans, room designs, and decorative art.
Late Victorian Gothic Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
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The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead walked and evil curses, foul murder, doomed inheritance and sexual menace played on the stretched nerves of the new mass readerships.
This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era.
The introduction explores the many reasons for the Gothic revival, and how it spoke to the anxieties of the moment.
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To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was “poor Bertie,” to his wife he was
“my dear little man,” while the President of France called him “a great
English king,” and the German Kaiser condemned him as “an old peacock.”
King Edward VII was all these things and more, as Hibbert reveals in
this captivating biography. Shedding new light on the scandals that
peppered his life, Hibbert reveals Edward’s dismal early years under
Victoria’s iron rule, his terror of boredom that led to a lively social
life at home and abroad, and his eventual ascent to the throne at age
59. Edward is best remembered as the last Victorian king, the monarch
who installed the office of Prime Minister.
This collection of essays attempts to address the disparate historical
and critical ways religion informs the literature and culture of
nineteenth-century England, showing how a representative group of major
Victorians negotiated its impact. This collection presents Victorian
religious discourse not as monologic but as dialogic, if not protean.
It makes available new understandings of nineteenth-century British
literature and elucidates the extent to which religious discourse is
vested in Victorian cultural thought and practice.
