The VictoriansLaurence Lerner Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1978 - 228 sider How closely was the social reality of Victorian England reflected in the vivid picture evoked by its literature? In this survey of the Victorian era the relation between literature and society is explained by means of three distinct sections. The first delineates the literary history in two chapters on the Victorian novel and Victorian poetry respectively. In the second and largest section a series of essays discuss various fundamental aspects of Victorian society: the economic and social framework, government and institutions, the sense of the past, painting and illustration, religion and the role of women. The third section offers two essays which explicitly relate a particular work to the society: one on Dickens' Dombey and Son, and the other on Tennyson's 'The Princess'. By turning to each essay after the rounded picture of Victorian society given in the previous sections, the reader will not only find his appreciation enhanced, but will also be enabled to argue back on equal terms in a way that is never possible with a survey of literature alone. |
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... influence of industrial change and social pressures . One of the most plausible explanations of contemporary reform was the political emergence of the middle classes and their claims to a larger share of power . In The Spirit of the Age ...
... influence of industrial change and social pressures . One of the most plausible explanations of contemporary reform was the political emergence of the middle classes and their claims to a larger share of power . In The Spirit of the Age ...
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... influential critics of the old Poor Law were the reforming utilitar- ians , strongly influenced by Malthusian population theory , and they exercised a very powerful influence on the Royal Commission which investigated the situation in ...
... influential critics of the old Poor Law were the reforming utilitar- ians , strongly influenced by Malthusian population theory , and they exercised a very powerful influence on the Royal Commission which investigated the situation in ...
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... influence was less frequently noted . But in the mid- Victorian period his persuasiveness for those whose Christian faith was lost had been immense . J.A. Froude , Carlyle's biographer , writing in 1890 , is again an important witness ...
... influence was less frequently noted . But in the mid- Victorian period his persuasiveness for those whose Christian faith was lost had been immense . J.A. Froude , Carlyle's biographer , writing in 1890 , is again an important witness ...
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Anglican aristocratic Arnold Beatrice Webb believed Bleak House Carlyle Carlyle's central chapter Chartism Christian church Condition-of-England question contemporary contrast criticism culture David Copperfield Dickens Dickens's doctrine Dombey Dombey and Son dramatic economic effect Emma Paterson England English essay example factory feminists fiction Froude George Eliot girls Gothic human ideal illustration imagination important income Industrial Revolution institutions interest kind labour late Victorian LAURENCE LERNER literary literature Little Dorrit London look lyric marriage ment middle classes Middlemarch modern moral movement narrative nature nineteenth century novel novelists Oxford Oxford Movement painting perhaps period poem poet poetic poetry political poor population poverty Princess problems radical railway readers realism reform religious Romantic Ruskin Samuel Smiles satire seems seen sense slum social socialist society style Tennyson Thackeray theme tion Tractarian traditional urban Victorian literature wages woman women workers working-class writing