Hours in a Library (Third Series) (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies) - Softcover

Stephen, Leslie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108047580 ISBN 13: 9781108047586

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This three-volume set brings together a diverse selection of essays by Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), author, philosopher and literary critic. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he was the founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. He wrote critiques of many authors and works, which were published in periodicals such as the Cornhill Magazine (of which he was editor from 1871), Fraser's Magazine and the Fortnightly Review. The Third Series, first published in 1879, includes commentaries on the works of Henry Fielding, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Kingsley and Walter Savage Landor, and the poetry of William Wordsworth. Stephen sets each writer's work in its historical context, comparing it to that of other significant authors of its era and evaluating its philosophical and moral qualities. His articles remain of great interest to scholars of early modern, Romantic and Victorian literature.

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Book Description

This three-volume set brings together a diverse selection of articles by the literary critic Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904). The Third Series, first published in 1879, includes commentaries on the works of Henry Fielding, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Kingsley and Walter Savage Landor, and the poetry of William Wordsworth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1108047580
• ISBN 13: 9781108047586
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 420