Overview
- The only affordable book currently on the market to cover this specific period and to discuss the Edwardian novelists
Considers some of the central themes of the period (including decadence, realism, early modernism, degeneration and imperialism) in texts by both major and 'minor' authors
Provides a new description of the lateVictorian Gothic novel in relation to issues of gender and authority, and careful analysis of the New Woman phenomenon
Features a selective chronology and a helpful annotated bibliography
Part of the book series: Transitions (TRANSs)
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this essential guide, Ruth Robbins explores an era often named an 'age of transition' which exists uneasily between the apparent certainties of the Victorians and the advent of a Modernist aesthetics of instability. Robbins considers some of the central literary categories and themes of the period (decadence, realism, nostalgia, New Woman writing, degeneration, imperialism and early modernism) in writings by both major and 'minor' writers, thereby creating a complex picture of transitions, continuities and breaks with the past. By examining this tumultuous era as an age in its own right, Pater to Forster, 1873-1924 offers the reader a rather different history of the late Victorians and Modernists, and retells that history from a new perspective.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pater to Forster, 1873-1924
Authors: Ruth Robbins
Series Title: Transitions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-3781-0
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 244
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: British and Irish Literature