Description |
x, 506 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Gotham library
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-506). |
Contents |
pt. 1. Victorianism: Victorianism / Jerome H. Buckley -- Toward a definition of Victorian activism / E. San Juan, Jr. -- pt. 2. Poetry: Communication and the Victorian poet / Kingsley Amis -- The intellectual quest of the Victorian poets / Kristian Smidt -- The jewelled bow: a study of Browning's imagery and humanism / W.O. Raymond -- The moment in th dramatic monologues of Robert Browning / Shiv K. Kumar -- Tennyson: artifice and image / Milton Millhauser -- The contraries: a central concept in Tennyson's poetry / Allen Danzig -- Equilibrium in the poetry of Matthew Arnold / Allan Brick -- Kipling / Lionel Trilling -- Swinburne / T.S. Eliot -- Intress of Inscape: G.M. Hopkins / Austin Warren -- Pre-Raphaelite poetry / W.W. Robson -- pt. 3. Fiction: The modern values of Victorian fiction / Lionel Stevenson -- Religious humanism and the Victorian novel: a postscript / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Determinism and responsibility in the works of George Eliot / George Levine -- The heroes and heroines of Dickens / Angus Wilson -- Truth about the whole range of society: W.M. Thackeray / Geoffrey Tillotson -- Hardy's major fiction / John Holloway -- Charlotte and Emily Bronte / Herbert Read -- The novels of George Meredith / Phyllis Bartlett -- Henry James and the trapped spectator / L.C. Knights -- Henry James: the private universe / Graham Greene -- pt. 4. Prose: Calm between crises: pattern and direction in Ruskin's mature thought / Robert Kimbrough -- Thomas Carlyle / Sir Herbert J. Grierson -- Newman and the Oxford Movement / Basil Willey -- Lytton Strachey's conception of biography / C.R. Sanders -- pt. 5. Criticism: Between two worlds: Matthew Arnold and romanticism / Leon Gottfried -- Walter Pater's literary theory and criticism / René Wellek -- pt. 6. Drama: The divide self in the society comedies of Oscar Wilde / Arthur Ganz. |
Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
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Added Author |
Kumar, Shiv Kumar, 1921- editor.
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