Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature

by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Book Overview

Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Victorian Afterlives sets out to recover this atmosphere, and to explain why its pressures are still being exercised on and in our own ways of thinking. Moving freely between different fields of inquiry (including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199269319
• ISBN13: 9780199269310
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"