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Elegy for an age : the presence of the past in Victorian literature

A magisterial study of the Victorian longing for the past in the face of a turbulent present
eBook, English, 2005
Anthem Press, London, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations (some color)
9781843313755, 9780857287335, 1843313758, 0857287338
741614204
The age of elegy
Carlyle : history and the human voice
Stopping for death : Tennyson's In memoriam
Tennyson and the passing of Arthur
Ruskin's benediction : a reading of Fors clavigera
Water into wine : the miracle of Ruskin's Praeterita
Mr. Darwin collects himself
The Oxford elegists : Newman, Arnold, Hopkins
Swinburne and the ravages of time
Walter Pater and the art of evanescence
Varieties of infernal experience : the fall of the city in Victorian literature