ABSTRACT

First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).

chapter II|6 pages

Romanticism

chapter III|8 pages

William Blake

chapter IV|13 pages

William Wordsworth 1

chapter V|10 pages

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

chapter VIII|8 pages

Gothic Romance and the Novel of Doctrine

chapter IX|7 pages

Jane Austen

chapter X|12 pages

Sir Walter Scott

chapter XI|11 pages

Lord Byron

chapter XII|11 pages

Percy Bysshe Shelley

chapter XIII|11 pages

John Keats

chapter XV|6 pages

The Drama in Decline 1

chapter XVI|9 pages

The Novel Between Scott and Dickens

chapter XIX|10 pages

The Theory of Evolution and Its Repercussions

chapter XX|13 pages

Thomas Carlyle

chapter XXI|14 pages

Philosophy, History, and Miscellaneous Prose

chapter XXII|8 pages

John Ruskin

chapter XXIV|9 pages

Thackeray and Trollope

chapter XXV|18 pages

Other Novelists of the Mid-Century

chapter XXVI|10 pages

Alfred Tennyson

chapter XXVII|13 pages

The Brownings

chapter XXIX|9 pages

Rossetti and His Circle

chapter XXX|9 pages

William Morris

chapter XXXI|9 pages

Algernon Charles Swinburne

chapter XXXIII|9 pages

George Meredith

chapter XXXIV|11 pages

Thomas Hardy

chapter XXXV|10 pages

Aestheticism and “Decadence”

chapter XXXVI|22 pages

The Novel: Naturalism and Romance

chapter XXXVII|9 pages

The Irish Literary Renaissance

chapter XXXVIII|16 pages

Modern Drama

chapter XXXIX|15 pages

Other Late-Victorian Poets 1

chapter XL|25 pages

The Modern Novel 1

chapter XLI|17 pages

Poetry in the Twentieth Century

chapter XLII|17 pages

Anthropology; Travel; History; Criticism