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Writing and Victorianism (Crosscurrents) - Hardcover

 
9780582289178: Writing and Victorianism (Crosscurrents)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0582289173 ISBN 13: 9780582289178
Publisher: Longman Pub Group, 1997

Synopsis

Addressing the concept of writing, this volume seeks to re-examine a range of issues and themes arising out of the Victorian period. Coverage the Victorian preoccupation with ancestry, tradition and geographical expansion; Victorian views of the "natural " landscape, of science, gender, and of the artist; suburbia and the rise of a new middle class; and the representation of opium in Victorian writing. The book also examines contemporary fiction's view of the Victorian era.

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About the Author

Professor of English at Reading University. He has also published The Myth of the Italian Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Writing (1994), and is a General Editor for the Crosscurrents Series. During the last ten years, he has been responsible for teaching and administering a postgraduate MA course, 'Literature and the Visual Arts, 1840-1940'.

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Publisher
Longman Pub Group
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0582289173
ISBN 13 
9780582289178
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
346
Editor
Bullen J. B.