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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797370703321

Titolo

Studies in Victorian and modern literature : a tribute to John Sutherland / / edited by William Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, [Wisconsin] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61147-693-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Disciplina

823.809

823/.809

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

American fiction fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

American fiction fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Publishers and publishing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: The Publishing Dimension; 1 Reconsidering the Unknown Public; 2 The Blackwood Female Literary Network, 1880-1910; 3 Trace Collaboration and the Problem of Evidence; 4 Margaret Oliphant and the Changing House of Blackwood; 5 Wheels of Desire; 2: Victorians Major and Minor; 6 Moral Puzzles in Adam Bede; 7 Structure, Tone, and Temper in Charles Lever's Lord Kilgobbin; 8 Sister Acts; 9 Why Did William Butler Yeats Leave William Allingham Out?; 10 Again the Zelig Effect; 11 Beyond Pickwick; 12 Another "Spoiling Hand" at Work on Middlemarch?

13 Rethinking the Endings of Great Expectations14 "Erect His Statue and Worship It"; 15 The Satirist Satirized; 3: Non-Victorians and Puzzles; 16 The Elephant in the Classroom; 17 The Inheritors; 18 Two Quiet Years; 19 "Where Are Our Moral Foundations?"; 20 The Archaeology of Pride and Prejudice; 21 The Fallen Idol; 22 My Collaboration with John Sutherland; 23 Angelica's Susan; 4: John



Sutherland's Life and Work; 24 John Sutherland; 25 Some of His Many Books; 26 A Lesson in Tact; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland's work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles.</span></span>