Why Victorian Literature Still Matters
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 gatew…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-0462-6
- EAN: 9781444304626
- Produktnummer: 13801954
- Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'209 KB
Über den Autor
Philip Davis is Professor of English Literature in the School of English, University of Liverpool, UK. He is the author of The Victorians and, most recently, Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life. His other books include The Experience of Reading; Real Voices: On Reading, and Memory and Writing: from Wordsworth to Lawrence, as well as works on Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson. He is also editor of The Reader, a non-academic literary magazine aimed at the serious reader.
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