By G. K. Chesterton
ISBN-10: 1504022599
ISBN-13: 9781504022590
A attention-grabbing survey of Victorian literature from certainly one of England’s maximum minds
dispensing his signature model of harsh wit, G. ok. Chesterton casts a serious eye at the poets and novelists that outlined the Victorian age in English literature. “Her mind's eye was once occasionally superhuman—always inhuman,” he writes of Emily Brontë. “Wuthering Heights could have been written via an eagle.” starting from sharp denunciation to actual admiration, Chesterton opinions the works of Tennyson, Ruskin, Eliot, Byron, and Shelley, between many others. He explores the effect of faith at the international of artwork and expounds upon the gridlock he believes to be permeating England within the early 20th century.
Conversational popular yet exacting in its remark, The Victorian Age in Literature is an necessary account of this influential period in literary history.
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The almost excruciating balance of his sentences leveraged by the two uses of the word ‘‘still’’ suggests the difficulty of the transition from one psychological identification to the other. ’’ Still, Ruskin does finally own that he is himself 11 Luytens, The Ruskins and the Grays, p. 78 (italics in original). Reading honeymoons 11 ‘‘saddened’’ by ‘‘little things’’ in his parents; it is this confession that initiates a discourse of self-denial. ’’ The passive ‘‘planned’’ disguises the agency of John and his parents while committing Effie to acquiescence.
30 Victorian honeymoons and indecision: the half smile and the half turn that signal, perhaps, not so much doubt as hesitation. Although in this case it is the father who most acutely feels the loss in this exemplary honeymoon narrative, other advice books use the same moment of departure to enter in more detail into the mind of the bride as she leaves her family.
So far we have looked at both the Ruskin and the Wemyss wedding nights as if they took place outside of time and place; in other words, as if they did not take place at all. This is easy to do, precisely because the ideology of the honeymoon produces an illusion of the couple in a world apart. , Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990); and Stephen Copley 12 Victorian honeymoons relation of the touristic gaze and the objects of that gaze.
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