Victorian Perspectives: Six Essays [Hardcover]

These essays focus on major figures, works or themes and movements of the Victorian era. They strive for fresh perspectives and aim to fill the gap in critical literature while reflecting the book's recurring concern with contexts and stratagems of presentation.Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: the editors - 'Hieroglyphical Truth' in Sartor Resartus: Carlyle and the Language of Parable; J.Hillis Miller - Elegant Jeremiahs: The Genre of the Victorian Sage; G.P.Landow - Prodigals and Prodigies: Trollope's Notes as Son and Father; D.D.Stone - Ruskin, Arnold and Browning's Grammarian: 'Crowded with Culture'; D.J.DeLaura - The Comedy of Culture and Anarchy; R.D.Altick - The View from John Street: Richard Whiteing's Social Realism; J.H.Buckley - Notes - Index