Victorian Literature: Modern Essays in Criticism

This distinguished collection of twenty-eight critical essays on Victorian literature by prominent American and British scholars otters an impressive survey of a long and complex era in English literary history. The first four essays are general; the rest are individual considerations of twenty-two of the major literary figures of the time, varying in approach from comprehensive appraisals of an author’s entire output to detailed examinations of a single significant work. Among the contributors are Lord David Cecil, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Walter Jackson Bate, Austin Warren, A. L. Rowse, C. M. Bowra, Cleanth Brooks, and Gordon N. Ray.