Book Review: Why Victorian Literature Still Matters by Philip Davis. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

To help 'serious readers,' some without degrees, to 'find their own instinctive and implicit sense of what Victorian literature meant for them,' Philip Davis helped set up the first part-time MA in arts and humanities in the North of England His book is aimed at both those studen...

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Published inLiterature & History Vol. 18; no. 2; p. 90
Main Author Arbuckle, Elisabeth Sanders
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published London Sage Publications Ltd 01.10.2009
Subjects
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)
Malamud, Bernard
Scott, Walter (1771-1832)
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Summary:To help 'serious readers,' some without degrees, to 'find their own instinctive and implicit sense of what Victorian literature meant for them,' Philip Davis helped set up the first part-time MA in arts and humanities in the North of England His book is aimed at both those students and general readers. Davis surveys novels, poems and works of non-fiction and contends that an 'increased awareness of psychology' was part of a 'process of continuous adjustment that is the inner drama of the Victorian story.' Different authors tried to show meaning differently, and their intentions could be modified by publishers' 'house style'.
ISSN:0306-1973
2050-4594