ISBN: 9780631204633

Over 30 leading international Victorianists collaborate in this multidimensional analysis of modern Britain's longest, unruliest literary epoch. A Companion to Victorian literature and Cu… More...

Over 30 leading international Victorianists collaborate in this multidimensional analysis of modern Britain's longest, unruliest literary epoch. A Companion to Victorian literature and Culture has an integrated design that combines inclusiveness with convenience. Its topical spectrum and accessible style keep the book available for ready consultation, with an index and network of cross-references.The historical overview explores the climactic years which precipitated new Victorian directions. It examines the chief phases of an individual life and their literary, representations, and considers how pervasively Victorian lives were inflected by sexuality.It surveys prominent Victorian careers, with chapters on religion, medicine, education, law, bureaucracy, the military, banking, industry, commerce, spectacle and publishing.It reviews the genres of poetry, fiction, sage writing, life writing, drama, and literary criticism. It contains 3 essays on the Victorians' conception of their world as defined by the maintenance and transgression of borders: between body and environment, home and street, nation and globe.When read sequentially, the book renders a textured and polyphonic image of the Victorian imagination: a manifold cultural force that notoriously eludes neat summary. We are destined to struggle with this recognizable tradition -- as scholars, as modern people -- for some time to come. Media > Book, [PU: Basil Blackwell]<

1999, ISBN: 0631204636

[EAN: 9780631204633], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 5.68], [PU: Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA, U.S.A.], Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. Previously owned by the late Professor D… More...

[EAN: 9780631204633], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 5.68], [PU: Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA, U.S.A.], Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. Previously owned by the late Professor David Bradshaw; his details penned on FEP. The jacket is a little edgeworn, with lightly creased upper edges. Some minor wear to the hardcover. Light marks on the page block and a few pages. Penned marginalia, by Bradshaw, on some pages; all text remains legible throughout. CM<