Victorian Literature

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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 and 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 Brontës * 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; melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny and innovations in print culture * 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

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Victor Shea

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19th Century English Literature Englische Literatur Englische Literatur / 19. Jhd. English Literature Grossbritannien /Literatur, Literaturgeschichte Literatur Literature Literaturwissenschaft Viktorianisches Zeitalter

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"A fully annotated anthology of Victorian literature is amassive undertaking, and the editors are to be commended for thisnear-heroic level of endeavor and the inclusiveness of theirselections."--Florence Boos, University of Iowa "In Victorian Literature Shea and Whitla havecreated a unique anthology that continues as an online resource,extending the contents in deep and subtle ways. The reader finds arich account of Victorian culture, from issues ofindustrialisation, gender, and colonial ideology to the art andarchitecture of the period, including the Victorian artform, the photograph. The comprehensive gathering of poems includeswomen's poetry and working-class poetry."--IsobelArmstrong, Birkbeck, University of London
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