Hilary Fraser provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of
English prose in the nineteenth century which draws from a wide
variety of fields including art, literary theory and criticisim,
biography, letters, journals, sermons, and travel reportage.
Through these works the cultural, social, literary and political
life of the twentieth century - a period of great intellectual
activity - can be charted, discussed and assessed. For the first
time, an inclusive critical survey of nineteenth-century
non-fiction is presented, that traces the century's ideological and
cultural upheavals as they are registered in the literary textures
of some of its most widely read and influential writings.The book
explores the relations between writers who are generally perceived
as occupying different discursive spheres, for example between John
Stuart Mill, Florence Nightingale and Mrs Beeton; between Cardinal
Newman, Elizabeth Gaskell and Hannah Cullwick; and between Charles
Darwin, David Livingstone and Henry Mayhew. The establishment and
development of different genres and their interactions over the
century are clearly mapped. The genre of the periodical essay, a
distinctively modern and flexible form catering to the mass
readership, is the subject of the introduction, and then more
specialist fields are discussed, covering scientific writing,
travel and exploration literature, social reportage, biography,
autobiography, journals, letters, religious and philosophical
prose, political writing and history.
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