Charlotte M Yonge: Religion, Feminism and Realism in the Victorian Novel - Softcover

Budge, Gavin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3039113399 ISBN 13: 9783039113392

Verlag: Peter Lang, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Charlotte M Yonge was one of the bestselling novelists of the Victorian period; she published prolifically during a lengthy writing career that lasted from the early 1850s to the 1890s, was highly regarded by contemporaries such as Tennyson and Kingsley, and continued to be widely read up till the 1940s even by unlikely figures such as Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Her work, on which Jane Austen exerted a significant influence, is central to an understanding of the development of the domestic novel, yet remains significantly less well known than that of other Victorian women writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Ellen Wood and M E Braddon. This book is the first full-length critical study of Yonge's writings, and presents an argument for the artistic coherence of her work as a novelist, as well as examining the reasons for its current non-canonical status. Reflecting Yonge's lifelong involvement in the Oxford Movement, and personal closeness to John Keble, the book situates her novels in the context of Tractarian aesthetics.

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Críticas:

«(...) the careful analysis of Yonge's plots and characterisation, and of the all-pervading influence of religion in her work, makes this volume extremely valuable, indeed unique.» (Helen Mathers, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History)

Biografía del autor:

The Author: Gavin Budge is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire. He has published articles on the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, John Polidori, and the Fleshly School controversy.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 3039113399
• ISBN 13: 9783039113392
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 317