A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

By Herbert F. Tucker

Book Overview

Thirty leading Victorianists from around the world collaborate here in a multidimensional analysis of the breadth and sweep of modern Britain's longest, unruliest literary epoch.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631218769
• ISBN13: 9780631218760
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Wide-ranging, helpful reference to Victorian period

This volume is a sharp collection of essays offering a solid grounding in the Victorian period's history as well as in current scholarship on its literature and culture. Students new to the period will benefit from the volume's multifaceted, multiply focused approach to the period; they will also find each chapter/essay's suggestions for further reading helpful if they choose to continue studying that chapter/essay's topic...