
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Volume 5: The Victorian Era - Third Edition
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Volume 5: The Victorian Era - Third Edition
About this book
Shaped by sound literary and historical scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors and includes a broad selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to matters such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. The full anthology comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; a passcode to access the latter is included with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes. A two-volume Concise Edition and a one-volume Compact Edition are also available.
Highlights of Volume 5: The Victorian Era include the complete texts of In Memoriam A.H.H., The Importance of Being Earnest, Carmilla, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as Contexts sections on "Work and Poverty, " "Women in Society, " "Sexuality in the Victorian Era, " "Nature and the Environment, " "The New Woman, " and "Britain, Empire, and a Wider World." The third edition also offers expanded representation of writers of color, including Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, Toru Dutt, and Rabindranath Tagore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Victorian Era
- History of the Language and of Print Culture
- Mary Prince
- Thomas Carlyle
- Contexts: Urban Work and Poverty
- Mary Seacole
- Harriet Martineau
- John Stuart Mill
- Contexts: Women in Society
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Charles Darwin
- Context: Nature and the Environment
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Robert Browning
- Charles Dickens
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- Charlotte Brontë
- Grace Aguilar
- Emily Brontë
- Contexts: The New Art of Photography
- George Eliot
- Contexts: Sexuality and Sexual Transgression
- John Ruskin
- Matthew Arnold
- Mary Ann Shadd
- George Meredith
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Contexts: The Pre-Raphaelites
- Christina Rossetti
- Lewis Carroll
- Ireland, Scotland, and Wales: Literary Currents in the Long Nineteenth Century
- William Morris
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Augusta Webster
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Walter Pater
- Thomas Hardy
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- âMichael Fieldâ Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper
- T.N. Mukharji
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Oscar Wilde
- Olive Schreiner
- Toru Dutt
- Vernon Lee
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Tekahionwake / E. Pauline Johnson
- Amy Levy
- Arthur Morrison
- Rudyard Kipling
- Contexts: Britain, Empire, and a Wider World
- William Butler Yeats
- The Aesthetic Movement
- Contexts: The New Woman
- Charlotte Mew
- Sarojini Naidu
- Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
- Appendices
- Permissions Acknowledgments
- Index of First Lines
- Index of Authors and Titles