Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy, multi-party democracy, and an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary culture which changed perm…
Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy, multi-party democracy, and an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary culture which changed perm…
Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy and multi-party democracy, as well as an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary culture which pe…
Focusing on the work of British and Irish authors, this work considers changes in literary forms, styles and genres, as well as in critical discourses, examines literary movements such as Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Decadence, considers the work of a wide ran…
In their lucid and accessible manner, Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small provide readers with an understanding of the complexity and variety of nineteenth-century literary culture, as well as the historical conditions which produced it.
Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy and multi-party democracy, as well as an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary culture which pe…
The aim of this thesis is to relocate the work of somelate nineteenth-century British writers, including Walter Pater,Oscar Wilde and William Morris, within the history of the avantgarde.This is carried out in two ways. First, I examine andcriticize on both theoretical and metho…