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"Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a powerful defense of the enduring impact of Victorian realism today. With a nod to the popularity of phrenology within that era, noted literary thinker Philip Davis points to a comer of the human mind where mid-Victorian literature resides. This "Victorian bump," he argues, is an area concerned with human purpose, morality, secularization and belief, human stories, and living in time." "Rather than emphasizing Victorian literature as an historical and reassuring body of knowledge, Davis explains its centrality for contemporary readers as an important mode of thinking and feeling, and provides a gateway of analysis into the popular prose and poetry of the Victorian Age. Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a personal manifesto, inviting readers to discover what it is that really moves them in a book. The author offers readers the encouragement to find out what Victorian literature means for them and how it relates to our wider human existence."--Jacket.

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Blackwell Pub., Wiley-Blackwell
Language
English
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171

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History and criticism, English fiction, English literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Books and reading, history, Literature and society

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19th century
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Cover of: Why Victorian Literature Still Matters
Why Victorian Literature Still Matters
2009, Wiley & Sons, Limited, John
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Cover of: Why Victorian Literature Still Matters
Why Victorian Literature Still Matters
2009, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
in English
Cover of: Why Victorian literature still matters
Why Victorian literature still matters
2008, Blackwell Pub., Wiley-Blackwell
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Malden, MA
Series
Blackwell manifestos

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/008
Library of Congress
PR871 .D35 2008, PR871.D35 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
171

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL19999388M
ISBN 13
9781405135788, 9781405135795
LCCN
2008009304
OCLC/WorldCat
213133333
LibraryThing
7543268
Goodreads
5956171
6688981

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OL2980197W

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