Elegy for an Age: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature

by John Rosenberg and John D. Rosenberg

Book Overview

In an age of radical transformation, the Victorians were caught between a vanishing past and an uncertain future. In the face of such a dizzying present, connecting with their past became for the Victorians a kind of survival strategy - this nostalgia took forms as diverse as their obsession with history and origins; the religious revivalism of the Oxford Movement; and the new Houses of Parliament, built in 1834, whose design looked longingly back...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843311542
• ISBN13: 9781843311546
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.5"