This bundle brings together 29 prominent works examining and exploring areas of 19th literature. The collection includes volumes on Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Brontës, Tolstoy and Joseph Conrad, as well as a critical look at key issues during this time, including Darwinism, orientalism, 19th century Romanticism, and scientific advancement during the period. The collection focuses on a variety of regions including Victorian England, Russia and the US, and explores the literary styles of the period from the provincial and comedic novel to new explorations of the psyche in the literature, as well as the industrial, technological and scientific advancements of the period. This comprehensive collection provides an essential and complete look at literature during the nineteenth century, and will be a useful and fascinating collection for any students of literature and history in particular those studying the Victorian period.
1. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, Henry A. Beers
2. Against The Age: An Introduction to William Morris, Peter Faulkner
3. Beltaine: The Organ of the Irish Literary Theatre, W. Yeats
4. The Brontë Novels, W.A. Craik
5. Browning Studies: Being Select Papers by Members of the Browning Society, Edward Berdoe
6. Barnaby Rudge: An Annotated Bibliography, Thomas Jackson Rice
7. The Critical Reception of Charles Dickens, 1833-1841, Kathyrn Chittick
8. Dickens and the Grotesque, Michael Hollington
9. Elizabeth Gaskell and the English Provincial Novel, W.A. Craik
10. Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Karen Chase
11. Gogol, Jankin Lavrin
12. An Introduction to the Russian Novel, Jankin Lavrin
13. Introduction to Proust: His Life, His Circle and His Work, Leon Derrick
14. Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism, Allan Hunter
15. Kipling and Orientalism, B.J. Moore-Gilbert
16. Madame Bovary, Rosemary Lloyd
17. Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian, David E.E. Sloane
18. Shelley: The Man and the Poet, A. Clutton-Brock
19. Spectrum of Decadence: The Literature of the 1890s, Murray Pittock
20. Tolstoy: His Life and Work, Derrick Leon
21. The Browning Cyclopaedia: A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning, Edward Berdoe
22. The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983), David E.E. Sloane
23. The New Fiction: (A Protest against Sex-Mania) And Other Papers, J.A. Spender
24. The Major Victorian Poets: Reconsiderations, Isobel Armstrong
25. The Victorian Poet: Poetics and Persona, Joseph Bristow
26. The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900, Peter Morton
27. Thomas Hardy, Norman Page
28. Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque, Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni
29. Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art and Thought, George P. Landow
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Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field