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Why Victorian Literature Still Matters Philip Davis (University of Liverpool, UK)

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters par Philip Davis (University of Liverpool, UK)

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters Philip Davis (University of Liverpool, UK)


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Résumé

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of the enduring impact of Victorian realism today. With a nod to the popularity of phrenology within that era, noted literary scholar Philip Davis points to a corner of the human mind where all Victorian literature resides.

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters Résumé

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters Philip Davis (University of Liverpool, UK)

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature's enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking.
  • Explores the prominence of Victorian literature for contemporary readers and academics, through the author's unique insight into why it is still important today
  • Provides new frames of interpretation for key Victorian works of literature and close readings of important texts
  • Argues for a new engagement with Victorian literature, from general readers and scholars alike
  • Seeks to remove Victorian literature from an entrenched set of values, traditions and perspectives - demonstrating how vital and resonant it is for modern literary and cultural analysis

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters Avis

Philip Davis's Blackwell manifesto offers a spirited, polemical defence of Victorian literature in general, and Victorian realism in particular, against its modernist and postmodernist detractors. (Oxford Journals, 1 June 2011)

In Why Victorian Literature Still Matters, Davis writes as a reader. Readers, as he defines them, are different from scholars and critics. Who distance themselves from the worlds before them by turning to history or theory instead. Readers, by contrast, do not distance themselves at all, but rather seek ever more closeness. (Victorian Studies, Winter 2010)Philip Davis's [book] ... Was fascinating about Victorian writing, and one of the best books written about how novels can work. (The Guardian, November 2008)

À propos de Philip Davis (University of Liverpool, UK)

Philip Davis is Professor of English Literature in the School of English, University of Liverpool, UK. He is the author of The Victorians and, most recently, Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life. His other books include The Experience of Reading; Real Voices: On Reading, and Memory and Writing: from Wordsworth to Lawrence, as well as works on Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson. He is also editor of The Reader, a non-academic literary magazine aimed at the serious reader.

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Introduction: The Victorian Bump and Where to Find It 1

1 Victorian Hard Wiring 9

2 Isaiah and Ezekiel - But What About Charley? 35

3 Not So Straightforward: Realist Prose and What It Hides Within Itself 54

4 A Literature In Time 81

5 Individual Agents 112

6 A Few of My Favorite Things: A Glove, a Sandal, and Plaited Hair 138

Notes 161

Index 168

Informations supplémentaires

GOR011522047
9781405135795
1405135794
Why Victorian Literature Still Matters Philip Davis (University of Liverpool, UK)
Occasion - Comme neuf
Broché
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
20080919
184
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