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Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of the enduring impact of Victorian realism today. With a nod to the popularity of phrenology within that era, noted literary scholar Philip Davis points to a corner of the human mind where all Victorian literature resides. This "Victorian bump," he argues, is an area concerned with human purpose, morality, secularization and belief, human stories, and living in time. Rather than emphasizing Victorian literature as an historical and reassuring body of knowledge, Davis explains its centrality for contemporary readers as an important mode of thinking and feeling, and provides a gateway of analysis into the popular prose and poetry of the Victorian Age. Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a positive manifesto, inviting readers to discover what they really like about a book. The author offers an insightful window for readers to formulate a sense of what Victorian literature means for them and how it relates to our wider human existence.
"Philip Davis's Blackwell manifesto offers a spirited, polemicaldefence of Victorian literature in general, and Victorian realismin particular, against its modernist and postmodernist detractors."(Oxford Journals, 1 June 2011)
"In Why Victorian Literature Still Matters, Davis writes as areader. Readers, as he defines them, are different fromscholars and critics. Who distance themselves from the worldsbefore them by turning to history or theory instead. Readers,by contrast, do not distance themselves at all, but rather seekever more closeness." (Victorian Studies, Winter2010)"Philip Davis's [book] ... Was fascinating about Victorianwriting, and one of the best books written about how novels canwork." (The Guardian, November 2008)"This book argues fearlessly and passionately for therelevance of Victorian literature to contemporary society,addressing a question too rarely asked in literary study: whyshould we care?"
-Marion Thain, University of Birmingham
"In Why Victorian Literature Still Matters, Davis writes as areader. Readers, as he defines them, are different fromscholars and critics. Who distance themselves from the worldsbefore them by turning to history or theory instead. Readers,by contrast, do not distance themselves at all, but rather seekever more closeness." (Victorian Studies, Winter2010)"Philip Davis's [book] ... Was fascinating about Victorianwriting, and one of the best books written about how novels canwork." (The Guardian, November 2008)"This book argues fearlessly and passionately for therelevance of Victorian literature to contemporary society,addressing a question too rarely asked in literary study: whyshould we care?"
-Marion Thain, University of Birmingham