Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction: George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope

ISBN-13: 9780367666248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 244 str.

Alice Crossley

Opis

Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley expounds on the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victorian period as a distinct category of identity and form of experience. She argues that male adolescence provides Thackeray, Trollope, and Meredith with opportunities for self-reflection and social crit

Spis treści

Note on Textual Editions. 1 Introduction. 2 The Bildungsroman and Advertising: Thackeray. 3 Manly Conduct: Meredith and the Culture of Improvement. 4 Investments in Youth: Speculation and Liberal Adolescence in Trollope. 5 The Language of Filial Dialogue in Meredith. 6 Aberrant Youth: The Dandy, the Wild Man, and the Deviant. Conclusion. Bibliography.

O autorze

Alice Crossley is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University of Lincoln, UK.