Victorian Literature: An Anthology

Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry - from the canon to its extensions and its contexts.

• Represents the period's major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Bront s
• Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the inclusion of women, working-class, colonial, and gay and lesbian writers
• Incorporates recent scholarship with 5 contextual sections and innovative sub-sections on topics like environmentalism and animal rights
  mass literacy and mass media
  sex and sexuality
  melodrama and comedy
  the Irish question
  ruling India and the Indian Mutiny and innovations in print culture
• Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field with a focus on social, cultural, artistic, and historical factors
• Includes a fully annotated companion website for teachers and students offering expanded context sections, additional readings from key writers, appendices, and an extensive bibliography