Building on the formula of York Notes, this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. Previous ed.: 1999
Ruth Robbins Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
Het academische werk van Ruth Robbins duikt in het rijke landschap van de Engelse literatuur van de late 19e en vroege 20e eeuw, met bijzondere nadruk op de Decadentbeweging. Haar werk verkent de complexiteit van autobiografie, literatuurtheorie en de onderscheidende stemmen van figuren als Oscar Wilde en Arnold Bennett. Robbins onderzoekt kritisch hoe literaire contexten worden gevormd en biedt inzichtelijke analyses van de stijlen en thema's die dit cruciale tijdperk kenmerken. Haar benadering biedt lezers een diepgaand begrip van betekenisvolle werken en hun makers.
Was the late nineteenth century 'Victorian' or 'modern'? Why did the New Woman disappear from literary history? Where did T. S. Eliot's poetics of the city come from?In this essential guide, Ruth Robbins explores an era often named an 'age of transition' which exists uneasily between the apparent certainties of the Victorians and the advent of a Modernist aesthetics of instability. Robbins considers some of the central literary categories and themes of the period (decadence, realism, nostalgia, New Woman writing, degeneration, imperialism and early modernism) in writings by both major and 'minor' writers, thereby creating a complex picture of transitions, continuities and breaks with the past. By examining this tumultuous era as an age in its own right, Pater to Forster, 1873-1924 offers the reader a rather different history of the late Victorians and Modernists, and retells that history from a new perspective.