The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830-1914

by Joanne Shattock

Book Overview

The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the 1830s, and the roots of modernism in the years leading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521709326
• ISBN13: 9780521709323
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"