Why Victorian literature still matters / Philip Davis.
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TextSeries: Blackwell manifestosPublisher: Chichester ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008Description: 1 online resource (vii, 171 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444304619; 1444304615; 1444304623; 9781444304626Subject(s): English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | English fiction | LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | English fiction | English literature | 1800-1899Genre/Form: Electronic books. | Criticism, interpretation, etc.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Why Victorian literature still matters.DDC classification: 820.9/008 LOC classification: PR871 | .D35 2008Online resources: Wiley Online Library
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Summary: Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature's enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking.:.; Explores the prominence of Victorian literature for contemporary readers and academics, through the author's unique insight into why it is still important today.; Provides new frames of interpretation for key Victorian works of literature and close reading of important texts.; Argues for a new engagement with Victorian literature, from general readers and scholars alike.; Seeks to.
The Victorian bump and where to find it -- Victorian hard wiring -- Isaiah and Ezekiel -- but what about Charley? -- Not so straightforward: realist prose and what it hides within itself -- A literature in time -- Individual agents -- A few of my favorite things: a glove, a sandal, and plaited hair.
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