مؤلف: Kerry McSweeney

Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama exte …

This edition is the first to present the text as it originally appeared, indicating the changes Carlyle made to later editions. Appendices contain Carlyle’s own extensive commentaries on his work. AB …

Kerry Mc Sweeney critiques such readings of Romantic, Victorian, and 19th-century American poems. In What’s the Import? he proposes and exemplifies an aesthetic or intrinsic critical model rooted in …

First published in 1984. Although Middlemarch was extravagantly praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, it is only in the last few decades that the novel has been widely recognise …

First published in 1984. Although Middlemarch was extravagantly praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, it is only in the last few decades that the novel has been widely recognise …

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The Victorian poetry of sexual love between men and women has not been as fully studied as other components of the imaginative literature of the period, and some of the attention it has received has …

The Victorian poetry of sexual love between men and women has not been as fully studied as other components of the imaginative literature of the period, and some of the attention it has received has …

The central importance of naturalistic vision – of a sense of man’s life as part of nature – is emphasized in this study of the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne. In tracing this vision, Professor Mc …

Four Contemporary Novelists offer accounts of the fiction of Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, and V. S. Naipaul. The author has charted the development of each writer; identified dominant them …

Mc Sweeney discusses the sensory acuity that informed Wordsworth’s, Coleridge’s, Thoreau’s, Whitman’s, and Dickinson’s finest achievements and then, when blunted by illness or age, contributed to an …

Kerry Mc Sweeney critiques such readings of Romantic, Victorian, and 19th-century American poems. In What’s the Import? he proposes and exemplifies an aesthetic or intrinsic critical model rooted in …