商品簡介
In this rich and accessible supplementary text students and general readers find the background they need to truly understand the cultural and contextual references of the Victorian novel, including the chronology of the age, changing perspectives on stasis, history, biography, religion, morals, evolution and detectives, and the foundations of Victorian thought about truth, domesticity, melodrama and ways of seeing. James (English emeritus, U. of Kent) provides concise examinations of key authors, including the Brontes, Dickens, Hardy, Kipling and Yonge and nearly three dozen texts. He closes with thematic topics ranging from children's novels to Irish novels, publishing formats, works of science and the novels of the working class. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Louis James’s writing reflects his interests in Victorian and postcolonial literature, and his main publications include Fiction for the Working Man 1830-50 (1963), Print and the People (1976) and Caribbean Writing in English (1999). After a much-travelled academic life he now lives with his wife and two cats near the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is an Emeritus Professor of English.
