• ISBN13: 9788126901173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: August 20, 2014
• Pages: 504
• Original Price: INR 1250.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 570 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

British Victorian Literature — Critical Assessments is a cross-section of some of the most insightful and perceptive critical writings ever published on a very complex period in English literary history. Divided into five sections — Victorianism, Poetry, Fiction, Prose, Criticism and Drama — this selection offers a comprehensive survey of the Victorian age in literature. It is hoped that all students of advanced English literature will find this book eminently useful.

Literary critic, professor, poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and translator, Shiv K. Kumar was born in Lahore. He received his doctorate in English Literature at Cambridge for his thesis Bergson & the Stream of Consciousness Novel. He was Chairman of the Department of English at Osmania University and subsequently Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hyderabad — from where he retired as its Vice-Chancellor. His research papers have appeared in such internationally known journals as Modern Language Review (Cambridge), Notes & Queries (Oxford), Modern Philology (Chicago), Journal of Art & Aesthetics (Ohio), English Studies (Groningen) and Toronto Review of English Studies. He has authored numerous works of literary criticism (published in the USA and the UK) besides five novels, two collections of short stories, seven collections of poems, a play and a translation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. In 1978, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 1987 he received the Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters) award for his collection of poems Trapfalls in the Sky. In 2001, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to literature. Professor Kumar has been Commonwealth Visiting Professor of Literature at the University of Kent (UK) and Distinguished Professor at the Universities of Oklahoma and Northern Iowa. He has also served as a member of Jury for the Neusdtadt Literary Prize (USA).

• PART I–VICTORIANISM

• 1. “Victorianism”-Jerome H. Buckley
• 2. Towards a Definition of Victorian Activism-E. San Juan, Jr.

• PART II–POETRY

• 3. Communication and the Victorian Poet-Kingsley Amis
• 4. The Intellectual Quest of the Victorian Poets-Kristian Smidt
• 5. "The Jewelled Bow": A Study of Browning's Imagery and Humanism-William O. Raymond
• 6. The Moment in the Dramatic Monologues of Robert Browning-Shiv K. Kumar
• 7. Tennyson: Artifice and Image-Milton Millhauser
• 8. The Contraries: A Central Concept in Tennyson's Poetry-Allan Danzig
• 9. Equilibrium in the Poetry of Matthew Arnold-Allan Brick
• 10. Kipling-Lionel Trilling
• 11. Swinburne As Poet-T. S. Eliot
• 12. Instress of Inscape: Gerard Manley Hopkins-Austin Warren
• 13. Pre-Rephaelite Poetry-W. W. Robson

• PART III–FICTION

• 14. The Modern Values of Victorian Fiction-Lionel Stevenson
• 15. Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel: A Postscript-U. C. Knoepflmacher
• 16. Determinism and Responsibility in the Works of George Eliot-George Levine
• 17. The Heroes and Heroines of Dickens-Angus Wilson
• 18. Truth About the Whole Range of Society: W. M. Thackeray-Geoffrey Tillotson
• 19. Hardy's Major Fiction-John Holloway
• 20. Charlotte and Emily Bronte-Herbert Read
• 21. The Novels of George Meredith-Phyllis Bartlett
• 22. Henry James and the Trapped Spectator-L. C. Knights
• 23. Henry James: The Private Universe-Graham Greene

• PART IV–PROSE

• 24. Calm Between Crises: Pattern and Direction in Ruskin's Mature Thought-Robert Kimbrough
• 25. Thomas Carlyle-Herbert J. C. Grierson
• 26. Newman and the Oxford Movement-Basil Willey
• 27. Lytton Strachey's Conception of Biography-Charles Richard Sanders

• PART V–CRITICISM

• 28. Between Two Worlds: Matthew, Arnold and Romanticism-Leon Gottfried
• 29. Walter Pater's Literary Theory and Criticism-Rene Wellek

• PART VI–DRAMA

• 30. The Divided Self in the Society Comedies of Oscar Wilde-Arthur Ganz