Simon Dentith

Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now (eBook, ePUB)

Reading with Hindsight

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examining works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Morris and John Ruskin, Dentith uses the notion of hindsight to approach issues of interpretation and historicity. It is possible, Dentith argues, to read historical literature with an awareness of the historical context and of the difference between the past and the present while allowing that friction or difference to be part of how we think about a text and how it communicates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317087335
• Artikelnr.: 45093078

Autorenporträt

Simon Dentith is Professor of English at the University of Reading, UK. He has written widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, most recently in Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain.

Inhaltsangabe

1 The Ambivalence of Hindsight
2 Reading with Hindsight: The Nineteenth Century and the Twenty-First
3 The Mill on the Floss and the Social Space of Hindsight
4 'If I had known then, what I knew long afterwards! --': David Copperfield
and the Ambivalence of Hindsight
5 Trollope and Political Realism
6 'The things that lead to life': Ruskin and Use-Value
7 Utopia Under the Sign of Hindsight
8 Writing with Hindsight: The Victorian Novel in Succeeding Centuries
Afterword: With the Benefit of Hindsight