A Companion To Victorian Literature & Culture (FINE COPY OF UNCOMMON 1999 PAPERBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING)

Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. Fine. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. xviii,488pp. Thirty leading Victorianists from around the world collaborate here in a multidimensional analysis of the breadth and sweep of modernBritain's longest, unruliest literary epoch. Four initial chapters of historical overview focas on climactic years (1832, 1848, 1870, and 1897) in which accumulated forces for change precipitated new Victorian directions. Four chapters from Part II examine in childhood, adolescence, aging, and death the chief phases of an individual life anf their literary representations, while a fifth consider pervasively Victorian lives were inflicted by sexuality. Part III expands the midmost life phase, working adulthood, to survey prominent Victorian careers, with chapters on religion, medicine, education, law, bureaucracy, the military, banking, industry, commerce, spectacle and publishing. While each chapter of the 'Companion' highlights literary aspects of its topic, literature as such centre stage in Part IV, which comprises separate chapters on the genres of poetry, fiction, sage writing, life writin, drama , and literary criticism. With General Subject Index and Index Of Victorian Works. A fine copy of an UNCOMMON first paperback edition, first printing. HEAVY PLEASE CONTACT US ABOUT POSTAGE. POSTAGE OUTSIDE OF UK MAY INCUR EXTRA COST. No inscriptions, underlining, or highlighting. . First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Fine.