From Dickens to Hardy: Volume 6

by Boris Ford

Book Overview

Provides a critical analysis of works written by English authors in the 19th century. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140222693
• ISBN13: 9780140222692
• Release Date: May 1983
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A quite comprehensive introduction to 'Victorian Literature'

There are essays here on Dickens,Thackery and Trollope, Tennyson, Browning, 'Middlemarch' 'Wuthering Heights' Mathew Arnold , George Meredith, G.M. Hopkins, Hardy. There are also survey essays on the social and economic background, and on the Literature of the period as a whole. There are also essays on the 'The Early Victorian Social Novel' 'The Voice of Prophecy in Carlyle and Ruskin 'Pre-Raphaelite Poetry' 'The Victorian Reading Public'' Aspects of Victorian Architecture'. This volume thus provides a good overall introduction to the Literature of the period. I however did not enjoy it as much as I have other volumes in the series although this may have more to do with me than with the essays themselves.