A companion to Victorian literature & culture
By: edited by Herbert F. Tucker.
Contributors: Tucker, Herbert F.
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;; 2
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Other titles: Companion to Victorian literature and culture; Victorian literature & culture
Description: Thirty leading Victorianists from around the world collaborate here in a multidimensional analysis of the breadth and sweep of modern Britain's longest, unruliest literary epoch.

Its topical spectrum, precision of focus, and accessible style keep the book available for ready consultation, while an index and network of cross-references encourage further study.

At the same time, when read sequentially the book renders a textured and polyphonic image, by diverse hands exemplifying diverse standpoints, of the Victorian imagination: a manifold cultural force that notoriously eludes near summary, yet bequeathed to our own day a recognizable tradition with which we are destined to struggle - as scholars, as modern people - for some time to come.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.