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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Laurence Lerner. I The novel GEOFFREY HEMSTEDT Novelists before the Victorian period had triumphantly demonstra- ted the suppleness of the genre , especially as it offered perspectives of social experience . The novel's development in ...
Laurence Lerner. I The novel GEOFFREY HEMSTEDT Novelists before the Victorian period had triumphantly demonstra- ted the suppleness of the genre , especially as it offered perspectives of social experience . The novel's development in ...
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... novel of public life , has the edge and candour of Thackeray's realism . As a market novelist he is prepared to use a full range of sentimental tableaux ( Orley Farm for example is packed with sophisticated melodrama ) , but he prefers ...
... novel of public life , has the edge and candour of Thackeray's realism . As a market novelist he is prepared to use a full range of sentimental tableaux ( Orley Farm for example is packed with sophisticated melodrama ) , but he prefers ...
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... novel The Nemesis of Faith ( 1848 ) which was burned in the College Hall by the Sub - Rector , his father was pitied as though for a son's death . It marks a notable shift of opinion when , from the 1860s onwards , in the numerous ...
... novel The Nemesis of Faith ( 1848 ) which was burned in the College Hall by the Sub - Rector , his father was pitied as though for a son's death . It marks a notable shift of opinion when , from the 1860s onwards , in the numerous ...
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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