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Victorian Contexts

Literature and the Visual Arts

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Murray Roston

    1. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Murray Roston
    Pages 1-6

  3. Carlyle’s ‘Fire-Baptism’

    • Murray Roston
    Pages 7-40

  4. The Fallen Woman

    • Murray Roston
    Pages 41-67

  5. Commodity Culture in Dickens and Browning

    • Murray Roston
    Pages 68-113

  6. George Eliot and the Horizons of Expectation

    • Murray Roston
    Pages 114-129

  7. Hopkins as Poetic Innovator

    • Murray Roston
    Pages 130-159

  8. The Art of Henry James

    • Murray Roston
    Pages 160-195

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 196-246
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About this book

Examines how both artist and writer in the Victorian era responded to the shared challenges, assumptions, and dilemmas of their time, often unaware that the same problems were being confronted in the kindred media. The placing of such writers as Dickens, G.Eliot, Hopkins, and Henry James within the context of Victorian painting, architecture, and interior design offers fresh insights into their works, as well as reassessments of such themes as the mid-century representation of the Fallen Woman or the impact of commodity culture upon contemporary aesthetic standards.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Murray Roston

About the author

MURRAY ROSTON is Professor of English at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He
also holds a permanent appointment as Adjunct Professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he teaches frequently.

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