In this Book

  • Farewell, Victoria!: British Literature 1880–1900
  • Book
  • Stanley Weintraub
  • 2011
  • Published by: ELT Press
    • Viewed
    • View Citation
buy this book Buy This Book in Print
summary
Although the Victorian era closed, literally, with the death of the Queen in January 1901, the post-Victorian transition had begun decades earlier. Farewell, Victoria! presents Stanley Weintraub’s engaging perspectives on late-Victorian literature, primarily but not exclusively its fiction, which looked backward to popular antecedents and forward to the societal and technological future. The early 1880s saw the close of iconic Victorian literary careers—Disraeli, Rossetti, Eliot, Meredith, and Trollope among others. It was also the decade of new reputations that would continue in some cases into the middle of the next century. The 1890s witnessed a plethora of experiments in modernity. The Yellow Book and The Savoy, graphic realism and a redefinition of morals, futuristic prophecy and exotic fantasy would expand taste, enlarge the market for books, and write a finis to leftovers from the past.

Table of Contents

Download PDF Download Full Book
  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Contents
  2. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Preface
  2. pp. vii-viii
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Exasperated Admiration: Bernard Shaw on Queen Victoria
  2. pp. 1-22
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. His Brother’s Keeper: William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1828–1919
  2. pp. 23-69
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Disraeli’s Endymion and the Unfinished Falconet
  2. pp. 70-86
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Disraeli and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
  2. pp. 87-96
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Collecting the Quarrels: Whistler and The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
  2. pp. 97-110
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Oscar Wilde and The Green Carnation: Narcissus Exposed
  2. pp. 111-123
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. The Critic in Spite of Himself: Oscar Wilde
  2. pp. 124-144
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Beardsley Before The Yellow Book
  2. pp. 145-162
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Another Look at The Yellow Book
  2. pp. 163-181
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Beardsley and The Savoy
  2. pp. 182-213
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Shaw’s Lady Cicely and the Remarkable Mary Kingsley
  2. pp. 214-221
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. A.D. 3,000. The True Report of a County Council Candidate’s Dream, The People He Saw, What They Thought of Him, and He of Them
  2. pp. 222-228
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Reclaiming Late-Victorian Popular Fiction
  2. pp. 229-245
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Notes
  2. pp. 246-254
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Index
  2. pp. 255-265
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
Back To Top

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless.