Isbn: 9780814710333 - the victorian imagination: essays in aesthetic exploration (9 risultati)

Soft Cover. Condizione: vg-. 382 pages; text clean, note to previous owner on 1st pg; 9" tall; shelf wear to edges of yellow cover; spine sunned. Paperback.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Used, no markings. Covers sunned a bit, binding is tight.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good condition. First Printing of the First Edition. New York and London: New York University Press, 1980. 6" wide by 9" tall. Tight and square. A few pages in the final two chapters have margin notes, dog-ears or underlining. Otherwise Very Good+ condition. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Contents are as follows: 1) The Victorian Imagination: A Nonpolemical Introduction; 2) Past and Present as Literary Experience: An Essay in the Epistemological Imagination; 3) The Tennysonian Imagination; 4) Tennysonian Madness: Mighty Collisions in the Imagination; 5) Enlarging the "miniature epic": The Panic Subtext in Tennysons.Oenon; 6) Tennysons The Lotos-Eaters: Emblem of a New Poetry; 7) In Defense of Locksley Hall; 8) Tennyson's Function of Poetry at the Present Time: A Parabolic Reading of The Princess; 9) In Memoriam in Aesthetic Context; 10) Tennyson's Maud: New Critical Perspectives; 11) The Poetry of Swinburne: An Essay in Critical Reenforcement; 12) Marius the Epicurean: Beyond Victorianism; 13) Dà jà vu Inverted: The Imminent Future in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean; 14) The Dark Space Illumined: A Reading of Hardys "Poems of 1912-13"; 15) Thomas Hardy's "chronicle-piece" in "play-shape": An Essay in Literary Conceptualization; 16) "The Thing Signified" by The Dynasts: A Speculation; 17) Thomas Hardy's Illusion of Letters: Narrative Consciousness as Imaginative Style in The Dynasts, Tess, and Jude. Index. . First Printing of the First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition. x, 382pp.…

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:0814710336.

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; x, 382 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The Victorian imagination: a nonpolemical introduction -- Past and present as literary experience: an essay in the epistemological imagination -- The Tennysonian imagination -- Tennysonian madness: mighty collisions in the imagination -- Enlarging the "miniature epic": the panic subtext in Tennyson's none -- Tennyson's The lotus-eaters: emblem of a new poetry -- In defense of Locksley Hall -- Tennyson's function of poetry at the present time: a parabolic reading of The princess -- In memoriam in aesthetic context -- Tennyson's Maud: new critical perspectives -- The poetry of Swinburne: a essay in critical reenforcement -- Marius the Epicurean: beyond Victorianism -- De?ja? vu inverted: the imminent future in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean -- The dark space illumined: a reading of Hardy's "Poems of 1912-13" -- Thomas Hardy's "chronicle-piece" in "play-shape": an essay in literary conceptualization -- "The thing signified" by The Dynasts: a speculation -- Thomas Hardy's illusion of letters: narrative consciousness as imaginative style in The Dynasts, Tess, and Jude. Subjects; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809-1892. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809-1892 Criticism and interpretation. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809-1892 Criticism and interpretation Addresses, essays, lectures. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron Studies. English literature 19th century History and criticism. English literature 19th century History and criticism Addresses, essays, lectures. History 19th century criticism. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; x, 382 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The Victorian imagination: a nonpolemical introduction -- Past and present as literary experience: an essay in the epistemological imagination -- The Tennysonian imagination -- Tennysonian madness: mighty collisions in the imagination -- Enlarging the "miniature epic": the panic subtext in Tennyson's none -- Tennyson's The lotus-eaters: emblem of a new poetry -- In defense of Locksley Hall -- Tennyson's function of poetry at the present time: a parabolic reading of The princess -- In memoriam in aesthetic context -- Tennyson's Maud: new critical perspectives -- The poetry of Swinburne: a essay in critical reenforcement -- Marius the Epicurean: beyond Victorianism -- Déjà vu inverted: the imminent future in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean -- The dark space illumined: a reading of Hardy's "Poems of 1912-13" -- Thomas Hardy's "chronicle-piece" in "play-shape": an essay in literary conceptualization -- "The thing signified" by The Dynasts: a speculation -- Thomas Hardy's illusion of letters: narrative consciousness as imaginative style in The Dynasts, Tess, and Jude. Subjects; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809-1892. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809-1892 Criticism and interpretation. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809-1892 Criticism and interpretation Addresses, essays, lectures. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron Studies. English literature 19th century History and criticism. English literature 19th century History and criticism Addresses, essays, lectures. History 19th century criticism. 1 Kg. …

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The Victorian Imagination (1980) by William E. Buckler New York University Press | ISBN: 0814710336 Condition: Good (as sold by Crappy Old Books) The Victorians are often remembered as a people who feared table legs, adored moral improvement, and considered a good fainting couch an essential item of household safety equipment. And yet ? inconveniently for the stereotype ? they also produced an astonishing amount of intellectual fireworks: novels bursting with social rage, poetry soaked in doubt, scientific revolutions, religious crises, industrial upheaval, and enough restless ambition to power a small empire (which, naturally, they did). William E. Buckler?s The Victorian Imagination is a guided tour through that densely furnished mental world ? the era?s ideas, anxieties, contradictions and creative energy ? delivered with the kind of seriousness that makes you sit up straight and feel faintly judged by the ghosts of nineteenth-century essayists. This isn?t a ?fun facts about Dickens? romp. It?s a book that looks the Victorian age in the eye and says: right, what was going on in there? Buckler is interested in imagination not as a fluffy artistic extra, but as the engine of Victorian culture ? the way the period thought, argued, justified itself, and wrestled with modernity arriving like a steam train through the drawing-room wall. The Victorians didn?t just build railways; they built belief systems, aesthetic movements, moral frameworks, and private torments. They were obsessed with progress and haunted by loss. They preached certainty and wrote pages of doubt. They invented the modern world and then worried it might be a terrible idea. This is the kind of book that makes you appreciate how the Victorian mind could hold so many opposing forces at once: faith and scepticism, sentiment and brutality, earnest reform and imperial confidence, the domestic and the global, the spiritual and the mechanical. If you like your literary criticism with big themes and a sense of cultural atmosphere ? rather than microscopic arguments over comma placement ? this is the sort of work that pulls you into a whole era and lets you feel its pressure. There?s irony too, of course. We like to imagine we?re far more relaxed than the Victorians. We like to picture ourselves as free of their moral anxieties and public performances. And then you read a book like this and realise we?ve merely swapped corsets for notifications and replaced the sermon with the feed. The Victorian imagination never really went away; it just modernised the branding. This copy is Good , as sold by Crappy Old Books ? a solid, respectable academic hardback/volume (depending on binding) with the honest signs of having been read by someone who probably owned a pencil and had opinions about ?the nineteenth century.? It?s ready for its next thoughtful reader, whether you?re studying, collecting, or simply curious about why the Victorians remain weirdly present in everything from our novels to our politics. Perfect for: literature lovers who enjoy the idea-world behind the books students of culture, history, and intellectual life anyone fascinated by the origins of modern anxieties readers who suspect the nineteenth century was never as simple as the costume dramas make it look Open it and step into a century of gaslight brilliance and shadow ? where imagination wasn?t escapism, but the tool Victorians used to survive their own ?modern world..…

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