Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Victorian Afterlives sets out to recover this
atmosphere, and to explain why its pressures are still being exercised on and in our own ways of thinking. Moving freely between different fields of inquiry (including literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science), and written in a lively and accessible style, this major new study
redraws the map of nineteenth-century culture to show what the Victorians made of one another, and what they might still help us make of ourselves.


Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/02/2002
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780198187271

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