Philip Davis (UK University of Liverpool)

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters

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Produktbeschreibung

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of the enduring impact of Victorian realism today. With a nod to the popularity of phrenology within that era, noted literary scholar Philip Davis points to a corner of the human mind where all Victorian literature resides.

Produktdetails

• Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9781405135795
• ISBN-10: 1405135794
• Artikelnr.: 23809480

Autorenporträt

Philip Davis is Professor of English Literature in the School of English, University of Liverpool, UK. He is the author of The Victorians and, most recently, Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life. His other books include The Experience of Reading; Real Voices: On Reading, and Memory and Writing: from Wordsworth to Lawrence, as well as works on Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson. He is also editor of The Reader, a non-academic literary magazine aimed at the serious reader.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Victorian Bump and Where to Find It 1
1 Victorian Hard Wiring 9
2 Isaiah and Ezekiel - But What About Charley? 35
3 Not So Straightforward: Realist Prose and What It Hides Within Itself 54
4 A Literature In Time 81
5 Individual Agents 112
6 A Few of My Favorite Things: A Glove, a Sandal, and Plaited Hair 138
Notes 161
Index 168

Rezensionen

"Philip Davis's Blackwell manifesto offers a spirited, polemicaldefence of Victorian literature in general, and Victorian realismin particular, against its modernist and postmodernist detractors."(Oxford Journals, 1 June 2011)

"In Why Victorian Literature Still Matters, Davis writes as areader. Readers, as he defines them, are different fromscholars and critics. Who distance themselves from the worldsbefore them by turning to history or theory instead. Readers,by contrast, do not distance themselves at all, but rather seekever more closeness." (Victorian Studies, Winter2010)"Philip Davis's [book] ... Was fascinating about Victorianwriting, and one of the best books written about how novels canwork." (The Guardian, November 2008)"This book argues fearlessly and passionately for therelevance of Victorian literature to contemporary society,addressing a question too rarely asked in literary study: whyshould we care?"
-Marion Thain, University of Birmingham