1st Edition

The Victorian Temper A Study in Literary Culture

By Jerome Hamilton Buckley Copyright 1967
    308 Pages
    by Routledge

    308 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1966. This volume is selected collection of what can be constituted as ‘Victorian Temper’ with parallel motifs in Victorian painting and in the plastic arts, The author draws most freely upon literary sources, including a good many minor writers whose work, whatever its subsequent fate, was in its day broadly representative. He has sought an interpretation of what might be called the Victorian temper rather than a reappraisal of Victorian talents.

    I Victorianism II The Anti-Romantics III The Spasmodic School IV Tennyson—The Two Voices V The Pattern of Conversion VI God and Mammon VII Victorian Taste VIII The Moral Aesthetic IX The Fear of Art X The Revolt from Reason XI The 1'Aesthetic Eighties XII The Decadence and After

    Biography

    Jerome Hamilton Buckley