Victorian Prose: An Anthology

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Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher
Columbia University Press, 1999 - 469 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.

With its fifty-six substantial selections, Victorian Prose reaches beyond the work of Carlyle, Newman, Mill, Arnold, and Ruskin to uncover an array of lesser-known voices of the era. Women writers are given full attention--writings by Mary Prince, Dinah M. Craik, Florence Nightingale, Frances P. Cobbe, and Lucie Duff Gordon are among the entries.

Excerpts cover such topics of the age as British imperialism, the crisis of religious faith, and debates about gender. On the issue of colonial expansion, opinions range from Benjamin Disraeli's celebration of empire-building as evidence of Britain's glory to David Livingstone's promotion of commerce with Africa as a way to retard the slave trade and make it unprofitable. Views on "the woman question" extend from John Stuart Mill's defense of women's rights to Mrs. Humphry Ward's opposition to women's franchise and Sarah Ellis's support for the domestic ideal.

This invaluable resource features:

-attention to important noncanonical writers--including a generous selection of women writers;

-a wide range of written forms, including periodical essays, travel accounts, letters, lectures, autobiographies, and social surveys;

-both chronological and thematic tables of contents--the latter encompassing subject areas such as England at home and abroad, the new sciences, religion, and the status of women;

-selections drawn from the original nineteenth-century editions; and

-annotations to each text that aid nonspecialists in understanding unfamiliar names, terms, and cultural debates.

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RICHARD OASTLER 17891861
9
Thomas B Macaulay review of Southeys Colloquies January
21
from Past and Present 1843
28
SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS 17991872
53
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN 180190
71
JANE WELSH CARLYLE 180166
87
ROBERT CHAMBERS 180271
102
James P KayShuttleworth The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes
107
QUEEN VICTORIA 18191901
267
Thomas Carlyle Past and Present
273
Robert Chambers Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
279
Punch Punchs Own Report of the Opening of the Great Exhibition May
283
GEORGE ELIOT 181980
288
HERBERT SPENCER 18201903
295
28
305
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 18201910
306

Crystal Palace June
115
JOHN STUART MILL 180673
122
from Autobiography 1873
131
Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus 18334
136
CAROLINE NORTON 180877
143
WILLIAM RATHBONE GREG 180991
157
CHARLES DARWIN 180982
166
from On the Origin of Species 1859
172
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE 180998
183
THE NEW SCIENCES
189
HENRY MAYHEW 181287
190
SAMUEL SMILES 18121904
200
from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 1857
207
PERCIVAL LEIGH 181389
216
WILLIAM ACTON 181475
222
CHARLOTTE BRONTË 181655
229
from Comtes Philosophy of the Sciences 1853
235
Sarah Stickney Ellis The Women of England
247
JOHN RUSKIN 18191900
248
from Of Queens Gardens lecture 1864 in Sesame and Lilies 1865
259
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON 182190
313
LUCIE DUFF GORDON 182169
319
FRANCES POWER COBBE 18221904
326
MATTHEW ARNOLD 182288
338
from Literature and Science Discourses in America 1885
349
from Science and Culture address 1880
359
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK 182687
371
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372
BARBARA LEIGH SMITH BODICHON 182791
377
Margaret Oliphant Autobiography
385
MARGARET OLIPHANT 182897
386
from The Autobiography of Mrs M O W Oliphant 1899
394
Walter Pater Studies in the History of the Renaissance
401
WALTER HORATIO PATER 183994
402
William Gladstone Englands Mission 183
439
1848
450
Selected Bibliography
455
Harriet Martineau Eastern Life Present and Past
456
1850
462
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