Why Victorian Literature Still Matters Is A Powerful Defense Of The Enduring Impact Of Victorian Realism Today. With A Nod To The Popularity Of Phrenology Within That Era, Noted Literary Thinker Philip Davis Points To A Comer Of The Human Mind Where Mid-victorian Literature Resides. This Victorian Bump, He Argues, Is An Area Concerned With Human Purpose, Morality, Secularization And Belief, Human Stories, And Living In Time. Rather Than Emphasizing Victorian Literature As An Historical And Reassuring Body Of Knowledge, Davis Explains Its Centrality For Contemporary Readers As An Important Mode Of Thinking And Feeling, And Provides A Gateway Of Analysis Into The Popular Prose And Poetry Of The Victorian Age. Why Victorian Literature Still Matters Is A Personal Manifesto, Inviting Readers To Discover What It Is That Really Moves Them In A Book. The Author Offers Readers The Encouragement To Find Out What Victorian Literature Means For Them And How It Relates To Our Wider Human Existence.--jacket. The Victorian Bump And Where To Find It -- Victorian Hard Wiring -- Isaiah And Ezekiel - But What About Charley? -- Not So Straightforward: Realist Prose And What It Hides Within Itself -- A Literature In Time -- Individual Agents -- A Few Of My Favorite Things: A Glove, A Sandal, And Plaited Hair. Philip Davis. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 161-167) And Index.

Davis, Philip (Philip Maurice)

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub.

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Blackwell manifestos, 1. publ, Malden, Mass, 2008

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Blackwell manifestos, Chichester, 2008

1, 2008-09-29

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature's enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking.:.; Explores the prominence of Victorian literature for contemporary readers and academics, through the author's unique insight into why it is still important today.; Provides new frames of interpretation for key Victorian works of literature and close reading of important texts.; Argues for a new engagement with Victorian literature, from general readers and scholars alike.; Seeks to

vii, 171 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-167) and index

2023-10-09