A collection of Victorian nonfiction prose juxtaposing classic texts and canonical writers in order to illuminate important debates in nineteenth-century Britain. It represents the voices of women and men on a range of nineteenth-century cultural issues and covers topics such as British imperialism, and debates about gender.
Victorian Prose Summary
Victorian Prose: An Anthology by Rosemary J. Mundhenk
-- Carl Woodring, Woodberry Professor Emeritus of Literature, Columbia University
About Rosemary J. Mundhenk
Rosemary J. Mundhenk is professor of English at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.LuAnn McCracken Fletcher is assistant professor of English at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
Introduction Mary Prince Richard Oastler Charlote Elizabeth Tonna Thomas Carlyle Sarah Stickney Ellis Thomas Babington Macaulay John Henry Newman Jane Welsh Carlyle Harriet Martineau Robert Chambers James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth Benjamin Disraeli John Stuart Mill Caroline Norton William Rathbone Greg Charles Darwin Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake William Ewart Gladstone Henry Mayhew Samuel Smiles David Livingstone Percival Leigh William Acton Charlotte Bronte George Henry Lewes John Ruskin Queen Victoria Charles Kingsley Prince Albert Punch George Eliot Herbert Spencer Florence Nightingale Richard Francis Burton Lucie Duff Gordon Frances Power Cobbe Matthew Arnold Thomas Henry Huxley Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon Margaret Oliphant William Morris Walter Horatio Pater Edmund William Gosse Mary Arnold [Mrs. Humphry] Ward Oscar Wilde Mary Kingsley Arthur William Symons
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Victorian Prose: An Anthology by Rosemary J. Mundhenk
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