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Behind Her Times: Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Judith Wilt
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Description for Behind Her Times: Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Hardcover. A definitive study of an author who in celebrating one era helped usher in the next. In this critical examination, the author sees Mary Arnold Ward as being "behind her times" in two senses - in her tireless defense of her evolving era's achievements and intentions, but also in her wariness of the advance of time and of the violence of change. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
From 1890 to 1905, Mary Arnold Ward was the best-selling novelist in the English language. As the Edwardian age came to an end, however, she became a target of scorn for modernists such as Virginia Woolf, and today most of her books have fallen out of print. But in her novels we can vividly experience the long transition from Victorian to modern England and see again the high melodrama of science's challenge to Christianity, of political socialism and the social gospel, and of women's suffrage and the First World War. The niece of Matthew Arnold and wife of the art ... Read more
From 1890 to 1905, Mary Arnold Ward was the best-selling novelist in the English language. As the Edwardian age came to an end, however, she became a target of scorn for modernists such as Virginia Woolf, and today most of her books have fallen out of print. But in her novels we can vividly experience the long transition from Victorian to modern England and see again the high melodrama of science's challenge to Christianity, of political socialism and the social gospel, and of women's suffrage and the First World War. The niece of Matthew Arnold and wife of the art ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813923673
SKU
V9780813923673
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About Judith Wilt
Judith Wilt, Professor of English at Boston College, is the author of Secret Leaves: The Novels of Walter Scott and Abortion, Choice, and Contemporary Fiction: The Armageddon of Maternal Instinct.
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