Outlines of Victorian Literature [Paperback]

This volume is a clearly worded and accessible introduction to the subject of Victorian literature.First published in 1913, this volume furnished a clearly worded and accessible introduction to the subject of Victorian literature. It will be of value to anyone wishing to know more about how Victorian literature was received and understood at the beginning of the twentieth century.First published in 1913, this volume furnished a clearly worded and accessible introduction to the subject of Victorian literature. It will be of value to anyone wishing to know more about how Victorian literature was received and understood at the beginning of the twentieth century.First published in 1913, Outlines of Victorian Literature was co-authored by Professor Hugh Walker and his wife and was based upon the former's earlier and larger volume, The Literature of the Victorian Era. The aim here was to furnish a clearly worded and accessible introduction to the subject of Victorian literature and to stimulate interest in the lives of the different writers and their works. The types of literature examined include novels and poetry, but also extend to works of biography, criticism, history, theology, philosophy and even science with a particular focus on the works of Charles Darwin. This volume will be of value to anyone wishing to know more about how Victorian literature was received and understood at the beginning of the twentieth century.Part I. Carlyle and the Systematic Thinkers: 1. Carlyle; 2. The theologians; 3. The philosophers; 4. Science; Part II. Poetry: 5. Some pre-Victorian poets; 6. Tennyson; 7. Browning; 8. Minor singers; 9. The turn of the century; 10. The later Pre-Raphaelites; 11. The Celtic poets; 12. The remaining poets; Part III. Novels and Novelists: 13. The successors of Scott; 14. Dickens; 15. Thackeray; 16. Women novelists; 17. Contemporaries of Dickens and Thackeray; 18. George Meredith; 19. Other story-tellers; 20. R. L. Stevenson; 21. Stories for children; Partl£Ç