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Sartor Resartus (Paperback)
Thomas Carlyle; Edited by Kerry McSweeney, Peter Sabor
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Sartor Resartus ("The Tailor Retailored") is ostensibly an
introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German
Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper
concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the
world, and the large questions of faith and understanding. This is
the first edition to present the novel as it originally appeared,
with indications of the changes Carlyle made to later editions.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
First published in 1984. Although Middlemarch was extravagantly
praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, it is
only in the last few decades that the novel has been widely
recognised as George Eliot's finest work, one of the greatest
English novels, and one of the classic texts of nineteenth-century
fiction. The intellectual, religious and aesthetic background to
Middlemarch are fully examined, with particular attention paid to
Eliot's key doctrines of fellow-feeling and the humanistic economy
of salvation. Professor McSweeney also provides fresh and
thought-provoking discussions of the role of the omniscient
narrator, and of character and characterisation. This title will be
of interest to students of literature.
First published in 1984. Although Middlemarch was extravagantly
praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, it is
only in the last few decades that the novel has been widely
recognised as George Eliot's finest work, one of the greatest
English novels, and one of the classic texts of nineteenth-century
fiction. The intellectual, religious and aesthetic background to
Middlemarch are fully examined, with particular attention paid to
Eliot's key doctrines of fellow-feeling and the humanistic economy
of salvation. Professor McSweeney also provides fresh and
thought-provoking discussions of the role of the omniscient
narrator, and of character and characterisation. This title will be
of interest to students of literature.
The Victorian poetry of sexual love between men and women has not
been as fully studied as other components of the imaginative
literature of the period, and some of the attention it has received
has been more concerned with the society and ideology of the age
than with the poetry or the love. This study attempts an integrated
account of the three elements, with particular emphasis on the
close reading of poems. Chapters are devoted to the distinguishing
features of Victorian love poetry; Browning's dramatic lyrics;
Tennyson's Maud and the lyrics from Princess; women poets (Barrett
Browning, Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson); Clough's three
long poems of contemporary life, Meredith's Modern Love; the lyrics
written by Morris and Dante Rossetti during the late 1860s and
early 1870s, when the latter was conducting an affair with Morris'
wife; and two elegiac sequences, the bereavement odes from
Patmore's Unknown Eros and Hardy's Poems of 1912-13. A final
chapter uses the love poetry of D H Lawrence to point up
continuities between Victorian and later love poetry.
The Victorian poetry of sexual love between men and women has not
been as fully studied as other components of the imaginative
literature of the period, and some of the attention it has received
has been more concerned with the society and ideology of the age
than with the poetry or the love. This study attempts an integrated
account of the three elements, with particular emphasis on the
close reading of poems. Chapters are devoted to the distinguishing
features of Victorian love poetry; Browning's dramatic lyrics;
Tennyson's Maud and the lyrics from Princess; women poets (Barrett
Browning, Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson); Clough's three
long poems of contemporary life, Meredith's Modern Love; the lyrics
written by Morris and Dante Rossetti during the late 1860s and
early 1870s, when the latter was conducting an affair with Morris'
wife; and two elegiac sequences, the bereavement odes from
Patmore's Unknown Eros and Hardy's Poems of 1912-13. A final
chapter uses the love poetry of D H Lawrence to point up
continuities between Victorian and later love poetry.
Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century
poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed
representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama
extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to
the upper classes and a number of superb satiric portraits: an aunt
with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney
Leigh, the Christian socialist; Lord Howe, the amateur radical; Sir
Blaise Delorme, the ostentatious Roman Catholic; and the
unscrupulous society beauty Lady Waldemar. However, the dominant
presence in the work is the narrator, Aurora Leigh herself. From
early years in Italy and adolescence in the West Country to the
vocational choices, creative struggles, and emotional entanglements
of her first decade of adult life, Aurora Leigh develops her ideas
on art, love, God, the Woman Question, and society. This is the
first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a
century. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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