Why Victorian Literature Still Matters

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature's enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking. * Explores the prominence of Victorian literature for contemporary readers and academics, through the author's unique insight into why it is still important today* Provides new frames of interpretation for key Victorian works of literature and close readings of important texts* Argues for a new engagement with Victorian literature, from general readers and scholars alike* Seeks to remove Victorian literature from an entrenched set of values, traditions and perspectives - demonstrating how vital and resonant it is for modern literary and cultural analysis

ISBN 1405135794   Pages 184 ISBN13 9781405135795 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 288 Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Published in Chicester Format Paperback   Series title Blackwell Manifestos Publication date 19 Sep 2008   Height (mm) 230 Library of Congress 2008009304   Width (mm) 155 DEWEY 820.9008   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate

Introduction		The Victorian Bump and Where to Find It		1
1		Victorian Hard Wiring		9
2		Isaiah and Ezekiel - But What About Charley?		35
3		Not So Straightforward: Realist Prose and What It Hides Within Itself		54
4		A Literature In Time		81
5		Individual Agents		112
6		A Few of My Favorite Things: A Glove, a Sandal, and Plaited Hair		138
		Notes		161
		Index		168

"In Why Victorian Literature Still Matters, Davis writes as a reader. Readers, as he defines them, are different from scholars and critics. Who distance themselves from the worlds before them by turning to history or theory instead. Readers, by contrast, do not distance themselves at all, but rather seek ever more closeness." (Victorian Studies, Winter 2010) "Philip Davis's [book] ... Was fascinating about Victorian writing, and one of the best books written about how novels can work." (The Guardian, November 2008)

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