Victorian Perspectives: Six EssaysJohn Clubbe, Jerome Meckier University of Delaware Press, 1989 - 156 pages Contributing greatly to the ongoing revaluation of the Victorians, these six essays capture fresh perspectives in presenting among the subjects a fuller grounding for Browning's poetry, a clearer awareness of the role of comedy in Arnold's prose, and a look at Trollope as a crucial addition to his era's exhaustive studies of symbolic parent-child relationships. |
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| xiii | |
Elegant Jeremiahs The Genre of the Victorian Sage | 19 |
Prodigals and Prodigies Trollopes Notes as a Son and Father | 40 |
Ruskin Arnold and Brownings Grammarian Crowded with Culture | 66 |
The Comedy of Culture and Anarchy | 116 |
The View from John Street Richard Whiteings Social Realism | 141 |
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