Dlb 18: Victorian Novelists After 1885

by Ira B. Nadel

Biocritical essays on 33 late Victorian novelists illuminate a distinct period in British literary history, which witnessed the birth of the detective novel by Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creation of some of the worlds favorite childrens literature, including Alice in Wonderland, and the fourishing of aestheticism in prose.Themes prevalent in the strongest works of the late Victorian period were the confrontation with spiritual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810311437
• ISBN13: 9780810311435
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.2" x 11.3"