The Victorian Age in Literature Contributor(s): Edibooks (Editor), G. K. Chesterton (Author) |
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ISBN: 1537110373 ISBN-13: 9781537110370 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.32 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Physical Information: 0.18" H x 6" W x 9" (0.28 lbs) 86 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 'I was born a Victorian; and sympathise not a little with the serious Victorian Spirit.' In this engaging and extremely personal account G K Chesterton expounds his views on Victorian literature. Many of his opinions reflect the conventions of the age; however of the Victorian novel he refreshingly comments 'it is an art in which women are quite beyond controversy'. Equally uncompromising about poets and poetry he does not hesitate to call Tennyson 'a provincial Virgil'. This book is an important landmark in our understanding of an age which produced some of Britain's most widely enjoyed literature. |