| Description |
1 online resource (1025 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Series |
Blackwell anthologies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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 extensive bibliography "-- Provided by publisher. |
| Source of Description |
Description based on print version record. |
| Local Note |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Victorian Literature: An Anthology -- Copyright -- About the Website -- Contents -- Plates and Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Victorian Representations and Misrepresentations -- "The Terrific Burning" -- The Battle of the Styles -- "The Best of Times, the Worst of Times" -- Demographics and Underlying Fears -- Power, Industry, and the High Cost of Bread and Beer -- The Classes and the Masses -- The Dynamics of Gender -- Religion and the Churches -- Political Structures -- Empire -- Genres and Literary Hierarchies -- The Fine Arts and Popular Entertainment -- Revolutions in Mass Media and the Expansion of Print Culture -- Part One Contexts -- The Condition of England -- Introduction -- 1. The Victorian Social Formation -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73): Pelham, or, Adventures of a Gentleman (1828) -- From Chapter 1 -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Chartism (1840) -- From Chapter 1: "Condition-of-England Question" -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Past and Present (1843) -- From Book I, Chapter 1: "Midas" -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81): Sybil (1845) -- From Book 2, Chapter 5 [The Two Nations] -- George Cruikshank (1792-1878): The British Bee Hive. Process engraving (1867) -- Matthew Arnold (1822-88): Culture and Anarchy (1869) -- From III [Chapter 3: "Barbarians, Philistines, Populace"] -- 2. Education and Mass Literacy -- Illustrated London News (14 May 1842): From "Our Address" -- Illustrated London News (7 Jan. 1843): Dedicatory Sonnet -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-81): Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D. (1844) -- From "Letter of Inquiry for a Master" by Thomas Arnold (1795-1842) -- From "Letter to a Master on his Appointment" -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850): "Illustrated Books and Newspapers" (1846). |
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Anon. [Thomas Peckett Prest (?) (1810-59)]: "The String of Pearls: A Romance" in The People's Periodical and Family Library (1846-47) -- From Chapter 38 [Sweeney Todd] -- From Chapter 39 -- The Society for Promoting Working Men's Associations: "Lectures for April, 1853" -- Charles Dickens (1812-70): Hard Times (1854) -- Chapter 1: "The One Thing Needful" -- Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809-93): From "The Englishwoman at School" in Quarterly Review (July 1878) -- Gender, Women, and Sexuality -- Introduction -- 1. Constructing Genders -- Kenelm Digby (1800-80): The Broad Stone of Honour: or, the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry ([1822] 1877) -- From Part 1, Section 14: "Godefridus" -- Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872): The Daughters of England (1842) -- From Chapter 1: "Important Inquiries" -- From Chapter 9: "Friendship and Flirtation" -- Marion Kirkland Reid (c.1839-89): From A Plea for Woman (1843) -- Richard Pilling (1799-1874): From "Defence at his Trial" (1843) -- Isabella Beeton (1836-65): The Book of Household Management (1859-61) -- From Chapter 1: "The Mistress" -- Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-98): From "The Girl of the Period" in the Saturday Review (14 Mar. 1868) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). "If-" (1910) -- 2. The Woman Question -- Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872): The Women of England (1838) -- From Chapter 2: "The Influence of the Women of England" -- Harriet Taylor (1807-58): From "The Enfranchisement of Women" in Westminster Review (July 1851) -- Caroline Norton (1808-77): From A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855) -- Harriet Martineau (1802-76), Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), Josephine Butler (1828-1906), and others: "Manifesto" of "The Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts" in Daily News (31 Dec. 1869). |
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Sarah Grand (1854-1943): From "The New Aspect of the Woman Question" in North American Review (Mar. 1894) -- Sydney Grundy (1848-1914): The New Woman (1894) -- From Act 1 -- Literature and the Arts -- Introduction -- 1. Debates about Literature -- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52): Contrasts -- Or, a Parallel between the Noble Edifices of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and Similar Buildings of the Present Day, Shewing the Present Decay of Taste: Accompanied by Appropriate Text (1836) -- From Chapter 1: "On the Feelings which Produced the Great Edifices of the Middle Ages" -- George Eliot (1819-80): From "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" in Westminster Review (Oct. 1856) -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915): Lady Audley's Secret (1862) -- From Chapter 1: "Lucy" -- From Chapter 37: "Buried Alive" -- Colin Henry Hazlewood (1820-75): Lady Audley's Secret (1863) -- From Act V -- Henry James (1843-1916): From "The Art of Fiction" in Longman's Magazine (Sept. 1884) -- 2. Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, and Decadence -- William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919): The Germ: Or Thoughts Toward Nature in Poetry, Literature,and Art (1850) -- From "Introduction" -- Charles Dickens (1812-70): From "Old Lamps for New Ones" [Review of Millais's Christ in the House of his Parents -- see Plate 12] in Household Words (15 June 1850) -- Christina Rossetti (1830-94): Two Poems on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood [1853] -- The P.R.B. [I] -- The P.R.B. [II] -- John Ruskin (1819-1900): "The Præ-Raphaelites" [On Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience" -- see Plate 10] Letter to The Times (25 May 1854) -- Walter Pater (1839-94): From "The Poems of William Morris" ["Æsthetic Poetry"] in Westminster Review (Oct. 1868) -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903): From "Mr. Whistler's 'Ten O'Clock'" (20 Feb. 1885) -- Religion and Science -- Introduction. |
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1. Geology and Evolution -- Robert Chambers (1802-71): Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844) -- From Chapter 12: "General Considerations Respecting the Origin of the Animated Tribes" -- Hugh Miller (1802-56): The Foot-Prints of the Creator: or, the Asterolepis of Stromness (1849) -- From "Stromness and its Asterolepis. The Lake of Stennis" -- Philip Henry Gosse (1810-88): Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot (1857) -- From Chapter 12: "The Conclusion" -- Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): From "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type" in Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Zoology (20 Aug. 1858) -- Charles Darwin (1809-82): On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859) -- From "Introduction" -- From Chapter 3: "Struggle for Existence" -- From Chapter 4: "Natural Selection" -- From Chapter 15: "Recapitulation and Conclusion" -- Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857-1944) -- Darwinism -- Empire -- Introduction -- 1. Celebration and Criticism -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): From "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" in Fraser's Magazine (Dec. 1849) -- John Stuart Mill (1806-73): From "The Negro Question" in Fraser's Magazine (Jan. 1850) -- John Ruskin (1819-1900): From Inaugural Lecture (1870) -- George William Hunt (c.1839-1904): "MacDermott's War Song" ["By Jingo"] (1877) -- J. R. Seeley (1834-95): The Expansion of England (1883) -- From Course II, Lecture I: "History and Politics" -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-92): "Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition" (1886) -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-92): "Carmen Sæculare: An Ode in Honour of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria" (1887) -- Henry Labouchère [?] (1831-1912): "The Brown Man's Burden" (1899) -- J. A. Hobson (1858-1940): Imperialism: A Study (1902). |
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From Part 2, Chapter 4: "Imperialism and the Lower Races" -- Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925): "Land of Hope and Glory" (1902) -- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922): From My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888-1914 (1919) -- 2. Governing the Colonies -- 2.1 India -- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59): From Minute on Indian Education (2 Feb. 1835) -- Proclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India -- G. A. Henty (1832-1902): With Clive in India: Or, The Beginnings of an Empire (1884) -- From "Preface" -- Flora Annie Steel (1847-1929) and Grace Gardiner (d. 1919): The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook: Giving the Duties of Mistress and Servants, the General Management of the House and Practical Recipes for Cooking in All its Branches (1888) -- From "Preface to the First Edition" -- From Chapter 1: "The Duties of the Mistress" -- Behramji Malabari (1853-1912): The Indian Eye on English Life, or Rambles of a Pilgrim Reformer (1893) -- From Chapter 2: "In and About London" -- Ham Mukasa (1870-1956): Uganda's Katikiro in England Being the Official Account of his Visit to the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII (1904) -- From Chapter 5 -- From Chapter 6 -- Part Two Authors -- Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) -- To Robert Browning -- "You smiled, you spoke, and I believed" -- Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher -- "I entreat you, Alfred Tennyson" -- Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871) -- "Him That Cometh to Me I Will in No Wise Cast Out." [Just As I Am] -- John Keble (1792-1866) -- From National Apostasy Considered in a Sermon Preached in St. Mary's, Oxford, Before His Majesty's Judges of Assize on Sunday, July 14, 1833 -- Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) -- Casabianca -- The Indian Woman's Death-Song -- The Indian With His Dead Child -- The Rock of Cader-Idris -- A Legend of Wales -- The Last Song of Sappho. |
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Janet Hamilton (1795-1873). |
| Related To |
Print version: Victorian literature : an anthology. Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015 Wiley Blackwell anthologies 9781405188746 |
| Subjects |
English literature -- 19th century.
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| Added Author |
Shea, Victor, 1960- editor.
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Whitla, William, 1934- editor.
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| Add Title |
Wiley Blackwell anthologies |
| ISBN |
9781118329047 (electronic bk.) |
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9781405188654 (hardback) |
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9781405188746 (paper) |
| OCLC # |
EBC7103544 |
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