Pater to Forster, 1873-1924

Description

"Pater to Forster, 1873 1924" covers a period often named as an "age of transition", which exists uneasily between the apparent moral certainties of the Victorian age and the advent of a modernist aesthetics of instability and uncertainty. Ruth Robbins considers some of the central literary categories and themes of the period in writings by major and "minor" writers - decadence, realism and naturalism, nostalgia, New Woman writing, degeneration, imperialism and early modernism - to create a complex picture of transitions, continuities and breaks with the past.

RUTH ROBBINS is Senior Lecturer in English at University College Northampton. She is the author of Literary Theories and co-editor of Victorian Gothic, both also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

'Excellent background reading: a carefully researched and interestingly written survey book of the period. Very useful chronology and annotated bibliography. I enjoyed this book very much and am sure students will, too.' - Ann Heilmann, University of Wales Swansea 'The most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to a fascinating period.' - John Stokes, King's College London 'A very nice 'digest' of the field, accessible to undergraduates...and providing a more compact overview than other such guides.' - Dr Sally Leger, Birkbeck College, University of London