Wordsworth and the Victorians

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-818764-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Wordsworth and the Victorians tells the story of the flowering of Wordsworth's reputation and influence. As well as showing how poets and novelists such as Matthew Arnold and George Eliot transmitted the Wordsworthian spirit, Stephen Gill uses a mass of anecdotal and biographical material - the personal testimony of critics, scholars, publishers, and ordinary readers - to illustrate just what Wordsworth's poetry meant to his Victorian readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gill, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations

- A Note on the Text

- Abbreviations

- 1: Fame

- 2: England's Samuel: Wordsworth as Spiritual Power

- 3: 'Fit Audience': The Marketing of Wordsworth

- 4: The Poetry of Humble Life

- 5: Wordsworth at Full Length: George Eliot

- 6: The Active Universe: Arnold and Tennyson

- 7: The Wordsworth Renaissance

- 8: The Last Decade: From Wordsworth Society to National Trust

- Appendix: The Membership of the Wordsworth Society in 1884

- Notes

- Bibliography

- Index