British Victorian Literature (Hardback)

British Victorian Literature Critical Assessments is a cross-section of some of the most insightful and perceptive critical writings ever published on a very complex period in English literary history. Divided into five sections Victorianism, Poetry, Fiction, Prose, Criticism and Drama this selection offers a comprehensive survey of the Victorian age in literature. It is hoped that all students of advanced English literature will find this book eminently useful.Table of Contents: PART IVICTORIANISM1. Victorianism-Jerome H. Buckley; 2. Towards a Definition of Victorian Activism-E. San Juan, Jr.PART IIPOETRY3. Communication and the Victorian Poet-Kingsley Amis; 4. The Intellectual Quest of the Victorian Poets-Kristian Smidt; 5. "The Jewelled Bow": A Study of Browning's Imagery and Humanism-William O. Raymond; 6. The Moment in the Dramatic Monologues of Robert Browning-Shiv K. Kumar; 7. Tennyson: Artifice and Image-Milton Millhauser; 8. The Contraries: A Central Concept in Tennyson's Poetry-Allan Danzig; 9. Equilibrium in the Poetry of Matthew Arnold-Allan Brick; 10. Kipling-Lionel Trilling; 11. Swinburne As Poet-T. S. Eliot; 12. Instress of Inscape: Gerard Manley Hopkins-Austin Warren; 13. Pre-Rephaelite Poetry-W. W. RobsonPART IIIFICTION14. The Modern Values of Victorian Fiction-Lionel Stevenson; 15. Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel: A Postscript-U. C. Knoepflmacher; 16. Determinism and Responsibility in the Works of George Eliot-George Levine; 17. The Heroes and Heroines of Dickens-Angus Wilson; 18. Truth About the Whole Range of Society: W. M. Thackeray-Geoffrey Tillotson; 19. Hardy's Major Fiction-John Holloway; 20. Charlotte and Emily Bronte-Herbert Read; 21. The Novels of George Meredith-Phyllis Bartlett; 22. Henry James and the Trapped Spectator-L. C. Knights; 23. Henry James: The Private Universe-Graham GreenePART IVPROSE24. Calm Between Crises: Pattern and Direction in Ruskin's Mature Thought-Robert Kimbrough; 25. Thomas Carlyle-Herbert J. C. Grierson; 26. Newman and the Oxford Movement-Basil Willey; 27. Lytton Strachey's Conception of Biography-Charles Richard SandersPART VCRITICISM; 28. Between Two Worlds: Matthew, Arnold and Romanticism-Leon Gottfried; 29. Walter Pater's Literary Theory and Criticism-Rene WellekPART VIDRAMA30. The Divided Self in the Society Comedies of Oscar Wilde-Arthur Ganz