Writing and Victorianism

ISBN-13: 9780582289161 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 354 str.

J. B. Bullen

Opis

Addressing the concept of writing, this volume seeks to re-examine a range of issues and themes arising out of the Victorian period.

Spis treści

Preface Introduction 1. Transition and Tradition: The Preoccupation with Ancestry in Victorian Writing, Sophie Gilmartin 2. The Major Silence: Autobiographies of Working Women in the Nineteenth-century, Carol Jenkins 3. Writing, Cultural Production and the Periodical Press in the Nineteenth-century, Laurel Brake 4. Engendering Vision in the Victorian Male Poet, Catherine Maxwell 5. Victorian Lucretius: Tennyson and the Problem of Scientific Romanticism, Patricia O'Neill 6. The Opium-eater as Criminal in Victorian Writing, Julian North 7. Obscure Recesses: Locating the Victorian Unconscious, Jenny Bourne Taylor 8. After the Play: Dreams of Drama and Death in the James Family, Frances Wilson 9. Visuality Codes and Texts: Charles Dickens's Pictures from Italy, Stephen Bann 10. John Ruskin and the Victorian Landscape, Phillip Mallett 11. A Life in Writing: Ruskin and the Uses of Suburbia, Dinah Birch 12. Figuring the Body in the Victorian Novel, J.B Bullen 13. The Victorian Novel as a Self-conscious Allusion, .Bernard Richards 14. Plotting the Victorians: Narrative, Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction, Kate Flint 15. Oscar Wilde at Centuries' End, Neil Sammells Notes on Contributors Select Bibliography Index

O autorze

J. B. Bullen is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, UK.