ABSTRACT

What happens when bad criticism happens to good people? Annoying the Victorians sets the tradition of critical discourse and literary criticism on its ear, as well as a few other areas. James Kincaid brings his witty, erudite and thoroughly cynical self to the Victorians, and they will never read (or be read) quite the same.

chapter |16 pages

The Part Before The First Part

part First|69 pages

Dickensian Jugglers

part |7 pages

Interlude I

part Second|68 pages

Poets And Propriety

part |12 pages

Interlude II

chapter 12|10 pages

H. Rider Haggard's The Return of 'She'

An Explication