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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 movement originating ca. 1977 in American poetry advocating a return to traditional accentual-syllabic verse [139] [140] Dana Gioia, X.J. Kennedy, Brad Leithauser, Molly Peacock, Mary Jo Salter, Timothy Steele: Performance poetry: This is the lasting viral component of Spoken Word and one of the most popular forms of poetry in the 21st ...
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)
Moreover, minority authors were beginning to publish fiction, as in William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853), Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends, (1857) Martin Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of America (1859–62) and Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) as early African ...
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.
The rise of the three-volume novel can be directly attributed to this influence, and Mudie's refusal to stock immoral books and "novels of questionable character or inferior quality", [14] such as George Moore's A Modern Lover (1883), A Mummer's Wife (1885) and A Drama in Muslin (1886), also had an effect on the direction of Victorian literature.
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 ...
A Brief History of American Literature. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781405192316. Kato, Shuichi (1997). A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times. Translated by Sanderson, Don (New Abridged ed.). Japan Library. ISBN 1-873410-48-4. Lane, Richard J. (2011). The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature. Routledge.