Why Victorian Literature Still Matters

By: Philip Davis

ISBN-13: 9781405135795
ISBN-10: 1405135794
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published date: 2008-09-29
“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.”–BOOK JACKET.