Excavating Victorians
By: Virginia Zimmerman.
Series: Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780791472798
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Geology in literature; Archaeology in literature; Space and time in literature; Time -- Philosophy; Authors, English -- 19th century -- Philosophy; Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: all relics here together; title: The Victorian geologist: reading remains and writing time; title: Tennyson's fairy tale of science; title: Accidental archaeology in London and Pompeii; title: Dickens among the ruins.