{"product_id":"victorian-nonfiction-prose-9781476681245","title":"Victorian Nonfiction Prose","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers and reviewers, to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these works offer fundamental, often surprising insights into Victorian society. Why, for example, did the innocuously titled \u003ci\u003eEssays and Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (1860) trigger public outrage? How did Eliza Lynn Linton become the first salaried woman journalist in England? What is table-talk?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Critical approaches to Victorian prose have long focused on a few canonical writers. Recent scholarship has recognized a wide diversity of practitioners, forms and modes of dissemination. Presented in accessible A-Z format, this literary companion reinstates nonfiction as a principal vehicle of knowledge and debate in Victorian Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant companion, not only to Victorian non-fiction prose, but to the Victorian Age itself. Rees combines scholarly erudition with vivid life-drawing, so that each subject seems to leap off the page to escort the reader into their particular region of Victorian life. Although it is designed as a work of reference, to be ‘dipped into’, I found it almost impossible to put down. The entry on Charles Spurgeon (‘the most published English-speaking Christian of all time’) led me to W.T. Stead then to Robert Louis Stevenson and on to John Addington Symonds and I emerged with a much richer sense of the texture of life of a period I thought I already knew well. This is a tour de force of scholarship which should become indispensable, not only to the 19C scholar, but to anyone needing a deeper understanding of the Victorian Age.” —Valerie Purton, emeritus professor of Victorian literature, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments delete\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface delete\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTextual Notes delete\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbbreviations delete\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction delete\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlphabetical List of Works Discussed delete\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVictorian Nonfiction Prose: A Companion delete\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix A: Timeline of Prose Texts \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand Historical Events delete\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix B: Glossary delete\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks Cited delete\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885813772631,"sku":"9781476681245","price":34.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/victorian-nonfiction-prose-9781476681245","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}