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The Victorian age in literature

A study of the literature of the last century.

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  • "A study of the literature of the last century."@en
  • "In The Victorian Age in Literature , published in 1913, Chesterton leaps into a concise overview of the outstanding writers of this era--discussing such poets as Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold as well as the great novelists Jane Austen, the Bront sisters, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Charles Reade. He writes with his own unmistakable brand of witty bravado, meditating on how George Eliot would write a Dickens character, or remarking that George Meredith was really, "at his best, a sort of daintily dressed Walt Whitman.""
  • """I was born a Victorian; and sympathise not a little with the serious Victorian Spirit."" In this engaging and extremely personal account G K Chesterton expounds his views on Victorian literature. Many of his opinions reflect the conventions of the age; however of the Victorian novel he refreshingly comments ""it is an art in which women are quite beyond controversy"". Equally uncompromising about poets and poetry he does not hesitate to call Tennyson ""a provincial Virgil"". This book is an important landmark in our understanding of an age which produced some of Britain's most wi."@en

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  • "Literatura angielska"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@es
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "History"@en

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  • "La era victoriana en literatura"@es
  • "The Victorian Age in Literature"
  • "The Victorian age in literature"@en
  • "Victorian age in literature"
  • "Victorian age in literature"@en
  • "The Victorian age in literature"
  • "The Victorian Age in Literature"@en
  • "The Victorian age in literature, by G. K. Chesterton"
  • "The VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE"@en
  • "Victorian Age in literature"@en
  • "The Victorian age in Literature"
  • "[The Victorian Age in Literature.]"@en
  • "[The Victorian Age in Literature.]"
  • "Victorian Age in Literature"
  • "The Victorian Age in literature"
  • "The Victorian Age in literature"@en
  • "The victorian age in literature"@en
  • "The victorian age in literature"
  • "The Victorian Age in literature With a foreword by Alvan Ryan"@en
  • "The Victorian Age in literature : [an impressive exploration of this immensely popular period in English Literture]"
  • "L'età vittoriana nella letteratura"
  • "L'età vittoriana nella letteratura"@it

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