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

• Published in: Literature & History Vol. 18; no. 2; p. 90
• Main Author: Arbuckle, Elisabeth Sanders
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: London Sage Publications Ltd 01.10.2009
• Subjects: Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Malamud, Bernard; Scott, Walter (1771-1832)

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...