Edited by Robert O Preyer (1 results)
Published by Harper Torchbooks, New York USA, 1967
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- First Edition
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The essays reprinted here will indicate.how varied are the responses we make today to the literature of the Victorian Period. There is no single approach to this body of writing and, for that matter, there is no clear-cut agreement as to what sorts of works should be included in the ca…non.The literature produced in the Victorian period offers a superb response to a new sort of experience, that of life lived in the midst of a permanent revolution set going by the manufacturing and productive institutions of the modern industrial state. There is nothing jaded in this response - it is freshly seen and evaluated by a group of writers who had themselves experienced life under an older dispensation and were in a position to judge what had been gained, what lost in the process. It is a literature criss-crossed with nostalgia and hope; with anger and humour. Above all it is the literature of an expansive age which knows it is going places but cannot name a specific destination, a literature of transition. Previous owners name, address and date inside cover. Some wear to cover but a good copy. Paperback. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).