The age of eclecticism : literature and culture in Britain, 1815-1885 /
Bolus-Reichert, Christine,1969-
Columbus : Ohio State University Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
History's diverse beauties -- The philosophy of the nineteenth century -- Eclecticism and literary modernity -- Alfred Tennyson : the originality of medley -- Charles Kingsley : the Alexandrian age -- Matthew Arnold : the second best life -- Walter Pater and Thomas Hardy : "triumph in mutability".
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888
Pater, Walter, 1839-1894
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
English literature
Eclecticism in literature.