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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)
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 ...
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.
April 21 – Mary A. Brayton Woodbridge, American editor and reformer (died 1894) May 17 – Sarah Gibson Humphreys, American author and suffragist (died 1907) May 20 – Hector Malot, French writer (died 1907) July 22 – Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (died 1902) September 8 – Frédéric Mistral, French poet (died 1914)
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 ...
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
Victorian romances are set in England between 1832 and 1901, beginning with the Reform Act 1832 and including the reign of Queen Victoria. [2] Novels set during this period but in a fictional country may be Ruritanian novels such as those by Beatrice Heron-Maxwell. M.M. Kaye focuses on the British Raj in this period rather than England itself.