Pater to Forster, 1873-1924

ISBN-13: 9780333696156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 244 str.

R Robbins

Opis

Pater to Forster, 1873-1924 covers a period often named as an 'age of transition', which exists uneasily between the apparent moral certainties of the Victorian age and the advent of a modernist aesthetics of instability and uncertainty. Ruth Robbins considers some of the central literary categories and themes of the period in writings by major and 'minor' writers - decadence, realism and naturalism, nostalgia, New Woman writing, degeneration, imperialism and early modernism - to create a complex picture of transitions, continuities and breaks with the past.

Spis treści

General Editor's Preface.- A Note on Texts Used.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Ways of Seeing.- The Persistence of Realism.- Rhymers and Reasoners: Poetry in Transition.- The Strange Case of Mr Wilde; or, 1895 and All That.- Masculine Romance, Cultural Capital and Crisis.- New Women for Old: Politics and Fictional Forms in New Woman Writing.- Conclusions: Rainbow's End: The Janus Period.- Selective Chronology.- Annotated Bibliography.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

RUTH ROBBINS is Lecturer in English Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Blurb

Was the late nineteenth century 'Victorian' or 'modern'? Why did the New Woman disappear from literary history? Where did T. S. Eliot's poetics of the city come from?

In this essential guide, Ruth Robbins explores an era often named an 'age of transition' which exists uneasily between the apparent certainties of the Victorians and the advent of a Modernist aesthetics of instability. Robbins considers some of the central literary categories and themes of the period (decadence, realism, nostalgia, New Woman writing, degeneration, imperialism and early modernism) in writings by both major and 'minor' writers, thereby creating a complex picture of transitions, continuities and breaks with the past. By examining this tumultuous era as an age in its own right, Pater to Forster, 1873-1924 offers the reader a rather different history of the late Victorians and Modernists, and retells that history from a new perspective.