York Notes Companions: Victorian Literature
- ISBN-10
- 129200388X
- ISBN-13
- 9781292003887
- Series
- York Notes Companions
- Category
- English literature
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Pearson UK
- Author
- Beth Palmer
Description
An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the era, this Companion explores influential dramatic works by Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde; the poetry of mourning; novelistic genres, including social problem novels and sensation fiction; and the literature of the fin de siècle’s aesthetes and decadents. Cultural and historical debates – focussing on empire, national identity, science and evolution, print culture and gender – supply essential context alongside discussion of relevant critical theory.
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