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'Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian
Literature and Science' is an edited collection of essays from
leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and
science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. Darwin,
Tennyson, Huxley, Ruskin, Richard Owen, Meredith, Wilde and other
major writers are discussed, as established scholars in this area
explore the interaction between Victorian literary and scientific
figures which helped build the intellectual climate of twenty-first
century debates.
'Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition' is a timely study of the
'sentimental' in Dickens's novels, which places them in the context
of the tradition of Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith,
Sheridan and Lamb. This study re-evaluates Dickens's presentation
of emotion - first within the eighteenth-century tradition and then
within the dissimilar nineteenth-century tradition - as part of a
complex literary heritage that enables him to critique
nineteenth-century society. The book sheds light on the
construction of feelings and of the 'good heart', ideas which
resonate with current critical debates about literary 'affect'.
Sentimentalism, as the text demonstrates, is crucial to
understanding fully the achievement of Dickens and his
contemporaries.
This chronological account of the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
is built up from contemporary documents, including the letters and
journals of the writer and of his family and friends. Maps, a
family tree and an index are included along with over 50
biographical sketches of the Coleridge circle. The progress of the
writer's education, reading, friendships and intellectual interests
is carefully adumbrated and the book provides a full background to
the genesis of the literary work. Along with descriptions of the
genesis of Coleridge's major works, a juxtaposition is made of the
writer's views with those of Wordsworth. Valerie Purton has
co-written "Poems by Two Brothers: A Study of George Clayton
Tennyson and Charles Tennyson D'Eyncout", and published articles in
"A.R.I.E.L. and Prose Studies" and "The Dictionary of British Women
Writers".
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