York Notes Companions: Victorian Literature
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An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the era, this Companion explores influential dramatic works by Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde; the poetry of mourning; novelistic genres, including social problem novels and sensation fiction; and the literature of the fin de siècles aesthetes and decadents. Cultural and historical debates focussing on empire, national identity, science and evolution, print culture and gender supply essential context alongside discussion of relevant critical theory.
Product Description
An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the era, this companion explores influential dramatic works by Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde; the poetry of mourning; novelistic genres, including social problem novels and sensation fiction; and the literature of the fin de siècles aesthetes and decadents. Cultural and historical debates focussing on empire, national identity, science and evolution, print culture and gender supply essential context alongside discussion of relevant critical theory.
Features + Benefits
Analysis of key texts and debates
Extended commentaries provide further in-depth analysis of individual texts
Notes contain extra context and explanations of literary terms
Historical, social and cultural contexts explored in introductory chapters and alongside discussions
Modern critical theory and perspectives in practice
Timelines and annotated further reading
Backcover
The York Notes Companion to Victorian Literature explores the drama, poetry and prose of an age of great innovation, than engaged with debates about empire, science and evolution, print culture, and gender. Examining classic texts such as Gaskells North and South and Tennysons In Memoriam, alongside lesser known works from the genre of sensation fiction and the fin de siècle, the Companion explores examples from a range of genres in detailed commentaries, and guides students through key literary theories and debates. Connecting texts with their historical and scholarly contexts, this is essential reading for any student of Victorian literature.
Each York Notes Companion provides:
Analysis of key texts and debates
Extended commentaries for further in-depth analysis of individual texts
Exploration of historical, social and cultural contexts
Annotations clarifying literary terms and events in history
Modern theoretical perspectives in practice
Timelines and annotated further reading
Beth Palmer is a Teaching Fellow in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds.
Part One Introduction
Part Two A Cultural Overview
Part Three Texts, Writers and Contexts
Victorian Poetry Memory and Mourning: The Brownings, Swinburne and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Extended commentary: Tennyson, In Memoriam
The Social Problem Novel: Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley and Elizabeth Gaskell
Extended Commentary: Gaskell, North and South (1855)
The Provincial or Regional Novel: Anthony Trollope, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy
Extended Commentary: Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
Sensation Fiction: Wilkie Collins, Ellen Wood and Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Extended Commentary: Braddon, Lady Audleys Secret (1862)
Victorian Drama: Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw
Extended Commentary: Shaw, Mrs Warrens Profession (1893)
Aesthetes and Decadents: Walter Pater, Arthur Symonds, J. K. Huysmans and Oscar Wilde
Extended Commentary: Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Part Four: Critical theories and Debates
Reader Reception and the popular author
New women, New Readers
The Literature of Empire and National Identity
Science, Eugenics and Evolution
Part Five References and resources
Timeline
Further reading
Index
Product Description
An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the era, this companion explores influential dramatic works by Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde; the poetry of mourning; novelistic genres, including social problem novels and sensation fiction; and the literature of the fin de siècles aesthetes and decadents. Cultural and historical debates focussing on empire, national identity, science and evolution, print culture and gender supply essential context alongside discussion of relevant critical theory.
Features + Benefits
Analysis of key texts and debates
Extended commentaries provide further in-depth analysis of individual texts
Notes contain extra context and explanations of literary terms
Historical, social and cultural contexts explored in introductory chapters and alongside discussions
Modern critical theory and perspectives in practice
Timelines and annotated further reading
Backcover
The York Notes Companion to Victorian Literature explores the drama, poetry and prose of an age of great innovation, than engaged with debates about empire, science and evolution, print culture, and gender. Examining classic texts such as Gaskells North and South and Tennysons In Memoriam, alongside lesser known works from the genre of sensation fiction and the fin de siècle, the Companion explores examples from a range of genres in detailed commentaries, and guides students through key literary theories and debates. Connecting texts with their historical and scholarly contexts, this is essential reading for any student of Victorian literature.
Each York Notes Companion provides:
Analysis of key texts and debates
Extended commentaries for further in-depth analysis of individual texts
Exploration of historical, social and cultural contexts
Annotations clarifying literary terms and events in history
Modern theoretical perspectives in practice
Timelines and annotated further reading
Beth Palmer is a Teaching Fellow in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds.
Part One Introduction
Part Two A Cultural Overview
Part Three Texts, Writers and Contexts
Victorian Poetry Memory and Mourning: The Brownings, Swinburne and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Extended commentary: Tennyson, In Memoriam
The Social Problem Novel: Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley and Elizabeth Gaskell
Extended Commentary: Gaskell, North and South (1855)
The Provincial or Regional Novel: Anthony Trollope, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy
Extended Commentary: Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
Sensation Fiction: Wilkie Collins, Ellen Wood and Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Extended Commentary: Braddon, Lady Audleys Secret (1862)
Victorian Drama: Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw
Extended Commentary: Shaw, Mrs Warrens Profession (1893)
Aesthetes and Decadents: Walter Pater, Arthur Symonds, J. K. Huysmans and Oscar Wilde
Extended Commentary: Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Part Four: Critical theories and Debates
Reader Reception and the popular author
New women, New Readers
The Literature of Empire and National Identity
Science, Eugenics and Evolution
Part Five References and resources
Timeline
Further reading
Index
An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the era, this Companion explores influential dramatic works by Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde; the poetry of mourning; novelistic genres, including social problem novels and sensation fiction; and the literature of the fin de siècle?s aesthetes and decadents. Cultural and historical debates ? focussing on empire, national identity, science and evolution, print culture and gender ? supply essential context alongside discussion of relevant critical theory.
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