Nineteenth-Century Prose

In The Yale Manuscript Arnold singles out Homer, the Old Testament, and Shakespeare for their distinction in both matter and manner that enabled them to achieve a rare wholeness. As examples of one-sided, incomplete achievements, he points to "the...

As I reviewed the materials for this, the first issue of Nineteenth Century Prose, I was reminded of the lines from Tennyson's Idylls of the King: The old order changeth, yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one...

Mary Wilson Carpenter. George Eliot and the Landscape of Time: Narrative Form and Protestant Apocalyptic History. Chapel Hill, N. C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. 246 pp. Daniel Cottom. Social Figures: George Eliot, Social History,...

Michael W. Brooks. John Ruskin and Victorian Architecture. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1987. 364pp. I always advise my pupils to read, as I did, The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice, though I am obligated to warn them that...

Linda Dowling. Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siecle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. 294 pp. Linda Dowling's Language and Decadence is a major contribution to the scholarship on Victorian fin de siecle. Assiduously...

W. David Shaw. The Lucid Veil: Poetic Truth in the Victorian Age. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. 311 pp. Taking his title from Tennyson's In Memoriam, David Shaw focuses his examination of Victorian poetics and philosophy...