Victorian Literature: An Anthology - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1405188650 ISBN 13 : 9781405188654

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

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Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fullyannotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers andstudents to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry.Included in this collection are 105 of the period s prose,poetry, drama, and nonfiction writers, including such canonicalauthors as Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, theRossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontës. Fifty authors arewomen.

In addition to selections from the major authors of the period,the volume promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view ofVictorian society by including women, working–class, colonial, gayand lesbian writers, and dialect poets. These selections offerreaders the opportunity to study new voices beyond the canon. Thereare 5 contextual sections covering the Condition of England;Gender, Women, and Sexuality; Literature and the Arts; Religion andScience; and Empire. These contexts are interdisciplinary in natureand examine the social, cultural, artistic, and historical factorsat play during the period. They also contain unexpectedsub–sections on topics of recent scholarship, such asenvironmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media;sex and sexuality; Victorian childhood; melodrama and comedy; theIrish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny; innovations inprint culture; and the science of race.

The coverage is further expanded with  an extensive websitefor teachers and students that presents additional contextualreadings (each with new sub–sections, such as Orientalism,ecclesiastical parties, literature and new technologies, law andthe sexual subject), visual materials, audio recordings, maps,chronologies, and thematic indexes.  These are  fully integrated with the text and include detailed annotationsabout names, places, events, allusions, and leading ideas. From thecanon to its extensions to its contexts, this website is a freshand exciting introduction to the diversity of the Victorianage.

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Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry  from the canon to its extensions and its contexts.

•  Represents the period s major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontës
• Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the inclusion of women, working–class, colonial, and gay and lesbian writers
• Incorporates recent scholarship with 5 contextual sections and innovative sub–sections on topics like environmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media; sex and sexuality;  melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny and innovations in print culture
• Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field with a focus on social, cultural, artistic, and historical factors
• Includes a fully annotated companion website for teachers and students offering expanded context sections, additional readings from key writers, appendices, and an extensive bibliography

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1405188650
• ISBN 13: 9781405188654
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1008