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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... particularly understandable in a period of rapid and unsettling social and economic change . What may at first seem surprising about the nostalgia of early Victorian England is the remoteness of the period it chose above all to idealize ...
... particularly understandable in a period of rapid and unsettling social and economic change . What may at first seem surprising about the nostalgia of early Victorian England is the remoteness of the period it chose above all to idealize ...
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... particularly clergymen , it was the former which generally came first and cut deepest . Theology , biblical commen- tary , historical criticism and the handling of texts were , after all , their culture in a way that science , despite ...
... particularly clergymen , it was the former which generally came first and cut deepest . Theology , biblical commen- tary , historical criticism and the handling of texts were , after all , their culture in a way that science , despite ...
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... particularly in the cotton mills , sometimes valued their independence highly , and were inclined to delay marriage in order to prolong the enjoyment of a regular wage and the fellowship of the factory . Married women , equally , might ...
... particularly in the cotton mills , sometimes valued their independence highly , and were inclined to delay marriage in order to prolong the enjoyment of a regular wage and the fellowship of the factory . Married women , equally , might ...
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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