Title The crisis of action in nineteenth-century English literature / Stefanie Markovits

Published Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2006] ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 258 pages) Contents Wordsworth's revolution: from The Borderers to The White Doe of Rylstone -- The case of Clough: Amours de Voyage and the crisis of action in Victorian verse -- "That girl has some drama in her": George Eliot's problem with action -- Henry James's nefarious plot: form and freedom in the hands of the master Summary "We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century National characteristics, British, in literature. Character in literature. British in literature. British in literature Character in literature English literature Literature and society National characteristics, British, in literature Engels. Bellettrie. Handelen. Maatschappij. Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1800-talet. Litteratur och samhälle -- historia -- 1800-talet. Nationalkaraktär i litteraturen. Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book

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