Davis, Philip
Why Victorian Literature Still Matters
Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature’s enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking.
- Explores the prominence of Victorian literature for contemporary readers and academics, through the author’s unique insight into why it is still important today
- Provides new frames of interpretation for key Victorian works of literature and close reading of important texts
- Argues for a new engagement with Victorian literature, from general readers and scholars alike
- Seeks to remove Victorian literature from an entrenched set of values, traditions and perspectives - demonstrating how vital and resonant it is for modern literary and cultural analysis
- Author(s)
- Davis, Philip
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Blackwell Manifestos
- Page amount
- 184 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781444304626