York Notes Companions: Victorian Literature
Book Details
Author(s)Beth Palmer
PublisherLongman
ISBN / ASIN1408204819
ISBN-139781408204818
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank3,053,612
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the era, this companion explores influential dramatic works by Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde; the poetry of mourning; novelistic genres, including social problem novels and sensation fiction; and the literature of the fin de siècle’s aesthetes and decadents. Cultural and historical debates – focussing on empire, national identity, science and evolution, print culture and gender – supply essential context alongside discussion of relevant critical theory.
