Victorian Prose: An AnthologyRosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher Columbia University Press, 27.08.1999 г. - 504 страници This engaging, informative collection of Victorian nonfiction prose juxtaposes classic texts and canonical writers with more obscure writings and authors in order to illuminate important debates in nineteenth-century Britain—inviting modern readers to see the age anew. The collection represents the voices of a broad scope of women and men on a range of nineteenth-century cultural issues and in various forms—from periodical essays to travel accounts, letters to lectures, and autobiographies to social surveys. |
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... better - known texts in the context of lesser - known writ- ings , we hope that the known will be seen anew and perhaps be appreciated differently . We provide thematic and chronological tables of contents in addition to an authorial ...
... better than any creature in the world . My obedience to her commands was cheerfully given : it sprung solely from the affection I felt for her , and not from fear of the power which the white people's law had given her over me . I had ...
... better things . It was then , howev- er , my heavy lot to weep , weep , weep , and that for years ; to pass from one misery to another , and from one cruel master to a worse . But I must go on with the thread of my story .... For five ...
... better off , but I found it was but going from one butcher to another . There was this difference between them : my former master used to beat me while raging and foaming with passion ; Mr. D — was usually quite calm . He would stand by ...
... better usage , and do not want to be free . They believe the foreign people , 7 who deceive them , and say slaves are happy . I say , Not so . How can slaves be happy when they have the halter round their neck and the whip upon their ...
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LIX | 259 |
LX | 267 |
LXII | 270 |
LXIII | 273 |
LXV | 279 |
LXVII | 283 |
LXVIII | 287 |
LXX | 295 |
XX | 87 |
XXII | 93 |
XXIV | 101 |
XXVI | 107 |
XXVIII | 115 |
XXX | 121 |
XXXII | 131 |
XXXIII | 143 |
XXXV | 157 |
XXXVII | 165 |
XXXVIII | 175 |
XL | 183 |
XLII | 189 |
XLIV | 199 |
XLVI | 207 |
XLVIII | 215 |
L | 221 |
LII | 229 |
LIV | 235 |
LVI | 241 |
LVII | 247 |
LXXIII | 305 |
LXXV | 313 |
LXXVII | 319 |
LXXIX | 325 |
LXXXI | 329 |
LXXXII | 337 |
LXXXIV | 349 |
LXXXV | 359 |
LXXXVIII | 364 |
LXXXIX | 371 |
XC | 377 |
XCI | 385 |
XCIII | 393 |
XCIV | 401 |
XCV | 409 |
XCVIII | 417 |
C | 423 |
CII | 427 |
CIII | 449 |
CV | 455 |