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The Victorian Novel (Oxford History of English Literature, 1991) Hroncek, Susan. Strange Compositions: Chemistry and its Occult History in Victorian Speculative Fiction (2016) Hughes, Winifred, The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s (1981) Jones, Gregory. William Harry Rogers: Victorian Book Designer and Star of the Great ...
A History of Literary Biography in England & America (1969) To Be in England: An American Literary Man's Personal View (1969) Victorian Studies in Scarlet: Murders and Manners in the Age of Victoria (1970) Librarianship and the Pursuit of Truth (1972) Victorian People And Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature (1973)
The 1880 novel The Violin-Player has been described as "perhaps the most triumphant narrative of female musicality in Victorian literature". [1] Her 1875 booklet Latest Intelligence from the Planet Venus , first published in Fraser’s Magazine , presented a satirical argument against giving women the vote.
A History of Victorian Literature (Wiley, 2011). Altick, Richard Daniel. Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature. (1974) online free; Felluga, Dino Franco, et al. The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (2015). Flint, Kay. The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (2014). Horsman, Alan.
British Interest in American Literature During the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century as Reflected by Mudie's Select Library. American Literature, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Jan. 1942), pp. 356–362 Guinevere L. Griest (1970), Mudie's circulating library and the Victorian novel , Bloomington: Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-15480-4 , 0253154804
William Dean Howells was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of 1850s Boston upper-crust life are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction. His most popular novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham, depicts a man who falls from materialistic fortune by his own mistakes.
The English-literature chapters begin with Old English poetry and end with the late Victorian era. Coverage of American literature ranges from colonial and revolutionary periods through the early twentieth century. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller were the joint editors-in-chief of the 14 volumes (with an additional index volume) on English ...
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