Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and lesser known writers
This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts.
Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readings of a number of well-known poems
Draws on the work of major Victorian poets and their works as well as many of the less well-known poets and poems
(complete, unabridged) George Eliot's masterpiece, Middlemarch, embodies through its various couples a nuptial kaleidoscope not matched since Chaucer's Wife of Bath. Conditions surrounding marriages in Victorian times for women were considerably different from what modern readers would surmise. Partly due to the deprivation of an equal opportunity to education, Victorian women were confronted with limited survival tactics. Beautiful English.
This novel is based on a 19th Century novel and explores notions of relationships and literature, with three alternate endings to the story.
Tells the story of Charles Smithson's infatuation with the unusual Sarah Woodruff, whilst being engaged to a young lady of a good family and a considerable dowry. John Fowles re-creates the feel of a Victorian novel. He also wrote "The Collector" and "The Magus".
Unabridged and read by Paul Shelley. 17 hours 7 mins duration. 14 CD's
