The crisis of action in nineteenth-century English literature

The crisis of action in nineteenth-century English literature / Stefanie Markovits.

"We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of act...

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Main Author: Markovits, Stefanie, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
Character in literature.
British in literature.
British in literature
Character in literature
English literature
Literature and society
National characteristics, British, in literature
Engels.
Bellettrie.
Handelen.
Maatschappij.
Engelsk litteratur > historia > 1800-talet.
Litteratur och samhälle > historia > 1800-talet.
Nationalkaraktär i litteraturen.
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Wordsworth's revolution: from The Borderers to The White Doe of Rylstone
  • The case of Clough: Amours de Voyage and the crisis of action in Victorian verse
  • "That girl has some drama in her": George Eliot's problem with action
  • Henry James's nefarious plot: form and freedom in the hands of the master.

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