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Why Victorian Literature Still Matters
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Artikel-Nr:
9781444304626
Veröffentl:
2009
Einband:
E-Book
Seiten:
184
Autor:
Philip Davis
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
Reflowable E-Book
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature s enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking. Explores the prominence of Victorian literature for contemporary readers and academics, through the author s unique insight into why it is still important today Provides new frames of interpretation for key Victorian works of literature and close readings of important texts Argues for a new engagement with Victorian literature, from general readers and scholars alike Seeks to remove Victorian literature from an entrenched set of values, traditions and perspectives - demonstrating how vital and resonant it is for modern literary and cultural analysis
Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionatedefense of Victorian literature's enduring impact andimportance for readers interested in the relationship betweenliterature and life, reading and thinking.* Explores the prominence of Victorian literature forcontemporary readers and academics, through the author'sunique insight into why it is still important today* Provides new frames of interpretation for key Victorian worksof literature and close readings of important texts* Argues for a new engagement with Victorian literature, fromgeneral readers and scholars alike* Seeks to remove Victorian literature from an entrenched set ofvalues, traditions and perspectives - demonstrating how vital andresonant it is for modern literary and cultural analysis
Introduction: The Victorian Bump and Where to Find It 11 Victorian Hard Wiring 92 Isaiah and Ezekiel - But What About Charley? 353 Not So Straightforward: Realist Prose and What It Hides WithinItself 544 A Literature In Time 815 Individual Agents 1126 A Few of My Favorite Things: A Glove, a Sandal, and PlaitedHair 138Notes 161Index 168