The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I: Literary Criticism and Literary History (The Pickering Masters) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851966595 ISBN 13: 9781851966592

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.

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About the Author

Joanne Shattock is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Leicester. Her research interests focus on the nineteenth-century periodical press, nineteenth-century women's writing, book history, life-writing and bibliography. She is President of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and holds an Honorary Moser Fellowship at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Keele. Elisabeth Jay is Emeritus Professor of English at Oxford Brookes University. Her interests lie predominantly in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and she has published widely on the fiction, prose and poetry of this period. She is on the Advisory Boards of the journals Literature & Theology (OUP) and English (OUP) and of the Institute of English Studies (University of London).

Review

'The editors (a different editor for each volume) of these two parts provide useful introductions that contextualize the literary output of Oliphant and highlight her career as a biographer, critic, and reviewer. Highly recommended.' CHOICE 'if the initial volumes are representative of the remainder of the project, VPR readers will want to encourage their libraries to purchase these first two parts and to place standing orders for the remainder.' Victorian Periodicals Review 'Gathering history, biography, and literary criticism along with fiction, the editors of this collection show how one extraordinarily prolific writer represented - in all its diversity - the spirit of her age.' New Books Online 19

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1851966595
• ISBN 13: 9781851966592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 2080
• Editor: Sanders Valerie, Shattock Joanne, Shaw Marion, Wilkes Joanne