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A Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel
Wiley 2008; US$ 135.95This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900. Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian novel was written and read. Crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Provides fresh perspectives on how Victorian fiction relates to different contexts, such as class, sexuality, empire, psychology,... more...
The Victorian Novel
Wiley 2008; US$ 142.95This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. more...
Victorian Literature and Finance
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 109.99This book analyses relationships between writing and the financial structures of the 19th century. What emerges is a remarkable set of imaginative connections between literature and Victorian finance, including women and the culture of investment, the profits of a media age, and the uncomfortable relationship between literary and financial capital.... more...
John Ruskin
The History Press 2011; US$ 8.74John Ruskin was one of the greatest Victorian critics of art and society, but he was also preoccupied with politics, economics and education. This pocket-sized biography explores his influence on his own age and ours, examining his work, his relationahips and his creative life. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 24.00Stimulating and informative new essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century culture. more...
Ruskin and Gender
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 122.00For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from Sesame and Lilies was read as a locus classicus of Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering... more...
The Duke's Children
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 8.99I do not know that one ought to be surprised at anything.'The Duke of Omnium is overwhelmed by the death of his vivacious wife, Lady Glencora. Once the British Prime Minister, he is now in sole charge of his three wilful children. Lord Gerald has been sent down from University; Lord Silverbridge has defected from the Liberal cause of his father's... more...
Praeterita
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 8.99For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.'John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian Middle Ages; a social critic whose aspiration for, and disappointment in, the future of Great Britain... more...
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