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Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry-from the canon to its extensions and its contexts. Represents the period's major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontes Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the inclusion of women, working-class, colonial, and gay and lesbian writers Incorporates recent scholarship with 5 contextual sections and innovative sub-sections on topics like environmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media; sex and sexuality; melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny and innovations in print culture Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field with a focus on social, cultural, artistic, and historical factors Includes a fully annotated companion website for teachers and students offering expanded context sections, additional readings from key writers, appendices, and an extensive bibliographyProduct Identifiers
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons AND Sons LTD
ISBN-139781405188746
eBay Product ID (ePID)209441170
Product Key Features
Book TitleVictorian Literature: an Anthology
AuthorVictor Shea, William Whitla
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature
Publication Year2014
Number of Pages1008 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height248mm
Item Width179mm
Additional Product Features
Series TitleBlackwell Anthologies
EditorWilliam Whitla, Victor Shea
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom