Victorian Literature: An Anthology

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Название: Victorian Literature: An Anthology

Автор: Victor Shea, William Whitla

Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell

Год: 2014

Формат: True PDF

Качество: оригинал

Размер: 12 Мб

Язык: English

Количество страниц: 1008

Описание: Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry, from the canon to its extensions to its contexts.

Represents the period’s major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontes

Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the inclusion of women, working-class, colonial, and gay and lesbian writers

Incorporates recent scholarship with 5 contextual sections and innovative sub-sections on topics like environmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media; sex and sexuality; Victorian childhood; melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny; innovations in print culture; and the science of race

Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field with a focus on social, cultural, artistic, and historical factors

Includes a fully annotated companion website for teachers and students offering expanded context sections, additional readings from key writers, appendices, and an