| Description |
viii, 374 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliography of the writings of Richard D. Altick": pages 349-359. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
"Agglomerating dollars with prodigious rapidity": British pioneers on the American lecture circuit / Philip Collins -- Writing and copying in the age of steam / Alexander Welsh -- "Rational amusement": fiction vs. useful knowledge / Robert A. Colby -- Macaulay's Lays of ancient Rome and the publication of nineteenth-century British poetry / Donald Gray -- Genre and the integration of gender: from Wordsworth to George Eliot to Virginia Woolf / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Carlyle as epic historian / John Clubbe -- "A great poetical boa-constrictor," Alfred Tennyson: an educated Victorian mind / eorge H. Ford -- Jane Eyre at Gateshead: mixed signals in text and context / Jerome Beaty -- Arnold and Goethe: the one on the intellectual throne / David J. DeLaura -- The identity of David Copperfield / Jerome H. Buckley -- Language abuse in Bleak House: the first monthly installment / John J. Fenstermaker -- "All the wickedness in the world is print": Dickens and subversive interpretation / James R. Kincaid -- "Why was I ever a father!": Charles Dickens as father / Arthur A. Adrian -- Of muscles and manliness: some reflections on Thomas Hughes / George J. Worth -- Trollope transformed, or the disguises of Mr. Harding and others / Andrew Wright -- An anatomy of aestheticism / Wendell V. Harris. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society.
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Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel), 1915-2008.
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| Added Author |
Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel), 1915-2008.
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Kincaid, James R. (James Russell)
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Kuhn, Albert J., 1926-2012.
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| ISBN |
0814203620 |
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