The Portable Victorian Reader

By Gordon S. Haight

Book Overview

THAT OSCAR WILDE AND CARLYLE, MACAULAYAND PATER, SAMUEL BUTLER AND CARDINAL NEWMAN CAN ALL BECALLED VICTORIANS INDICATES HOW WIDE A FIELD THE TERM EMBRACES. THE SELECTIONS IN THIS ANTHOLOGY HAVE BEEN CHOSEN AND ARRANGED FOR WHAT THEY TELL US OFTHAT SURPRISINGLY REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD - ITS SOCIAL AND POLITICAL OUTLOOK, ART, PHILOSOPHY, CUSTOMS - AS MUCH AS FOR THEIR PURELY LITERARY INTEREST. INCLUDED ARE SUBSTANTIAL, SELF-CONTAINED PASSAGES FROM THIRTY-SEVEN BRITISH AUTHORS: NOVELISTS, ESSAYISTS, HUMORISTS, SCIENTISTS, WRITERS ON RELIGION AND EDUCATION, WRITERS OF LEADERS FOR 'THE TIMES', LETTER-WRITERS, EVEN QUEEN VICTORIA HERSELF IN HER JOURNAL.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140150692
• ISBN13: 9780140150698
• Release Date: October 1976
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"