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By Francis O'Gorman,Katherine Turner

Disrupting the typical assumption that the Victorians seemed their eighteenth-century predecessors with little curiosity or with disdain, the essays within the Victorians and the Eighteenth Century suggest a re-evaluation of those relationships. jointly, they reveal a number of the major and intricate ways that key facets and texts of the eighteenth century have been positioned, learn, and transacted in the post-Romantic 19th century. person essays study the impression of the paintings of Pope and the eighteenth-century novelists reminiscent of Johnson, Chatterton, and Rousseau on a variety of Victorian writers and cultural productions, together with Dickens, Eliot, Oliphant, Ruskin, historic fiction, past due Victorian paintings feedback, The English males of Letters sequence, and the Oxford English Dictionary. The individuals problem long-held perspectives approximately Victorian makes use of of the previous, and provide new insights into how the literature and tradition of the eighteenth century contributed to shaping the tradition and id of the 19th. This selection of essays through a magnificent array of students, with a Preface by means of David Fairer, represents a distinct method of this region of literary historical past and provides new views at the nature and technique of 'periodization'. whereas it's evidently of serious curiosity to scholars of eighteenth-century and Victorian literature, it's going to additionally attract readers extra generally desirous about questions of literary impression, periodization, and historiography.

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