ipl Literary Criticism

Online Literary Criticism Collection

Links below don’t belong? CONTACT US!

Return to: Literary Criticism Collection Home | ipl Home


British: 19th Century

Sites | Author List


Sites about British: 19th Century literature:

Anglo-Irish Literature
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/authors/#9
This lengthy analysis of Irish Victorian era literature includes sections on “Gaelic and Classical Literature”, “Irish influence on English Literature”, “National Folk-ballads and other writings”, “Patrick Kennedy”, and “Women writers.”
Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis, Bibliography
Author: Alfred Perceval Graves
From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XIII: English, The Victorian Age, Part Two,The Nineteenth Century, III
Keywords:
Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer
http://www.victorianweb.org/genre/ej/contents.html
“Recognizing the specific elements of Old Testament prophecy that the Victorian sages drew upon helps define the genre they created, and such definition is a crucial step in understanding this major strain in Anglo-American nonfiction. Indeed, one of the most useful approaches to the Victorian sage begins in the recognition that his writings and those of his modem heirs form a clearly identifiable genre, the definition of which offers readers crucial assistance since genre determines the rules by which one reads, interprets, and experiences individual works of literature.”
Contains: Historical Context
Author: George P. Landow
From: The Victorian Web Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986
Keywords:
English-Canadian Literature
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/authors/#11
This lengthy analysis of Canadian Victorian era literature includes sections on Haliburton, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald Lampman, William Henry Drummond , Lesser Poets, Historians, and Novelists.
Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis, Bibliography
Author: Pelham Edgar
From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XIII: English, The Victorian Age, Part Two,The Nineteenth Century, III
Keywords:
English, Scottish, and Irish Literature 1800-1899
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Outline.htm
“Articles about British and American authors do exist on the web. You can read good criticism of novels, poetry, plays, online and for free. But there are plenty of sites that are a waste of time, too. Use our guide to find the worthwhile articles and skip the web sites where someone just retyped their favorite poem.”
Author: Jan Pridmore
Keywords:
Frail Treasures: Child Death and the Victorian Novel
http://www.victorianweb.org/genre/childlit/banerjee1.html
“Nowhere is the Victorian novelists’ desire to strengthen resolve more keenly felt than when they deal with early death. [….] This is the point at which the Romantic ideal of the innocent child, and the Evangelical ideal of the saved child as a spiritual guide, reinforce each other. However, the novelists rarely adopt either the visionary modes of Romantic poetry or the saccharine iconography of the tract: the novel form which they inherited offers its own unique opportunities for stressing the value of childhood, and exploring [in a positive way] the last phase of a child character’s earthly consciousness.”
Contains: Historical Context,
Author: Jacqueline Banerjee
From: Through the Northern Gate: Childhood and Growing Up in British Fiction, 1719-1901 Chapter 4; New York: Peter Lang, 1996
Keywords: death, children
Molland’s
http://www.mollands.net
An online community of Jane Austen fans help maintain this website devoted to the author. Contains public domain works on and by Austen as well as a list of links to external resources for more information. Also has an online forum.
Author: Molland’s
Keywords:
Access Restrictions:
Nineteenth-Century Drama
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/authors/#8
This lengthy analysis of English 19th century drama includes sections on “The drama a popular amusement in the nineteenth century “, Richard Lalor Sheil , J. Westland Marston , Dion Boucicault, Douglas Jerrold, and W. S. Gilbert.
Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis, Bibliography
Author: Harold Child
From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XIII: English, The Victorian Age, Part One,The Nineteenth Century, III
Keywords:
The Pre-Raphaelite Critic
http://www.engl.duq.edu/servus/PR_Critic/Reviews.html
“The critical opinion about the Pre-Rapahelites’ output was often scathing, often laudatory, but always good reading. I have compiled an index of nearly all (I won’t claim this index is definitive–merely very, very close to it) of the magazine and newspaper articles mentioning thePre-Raphaelites between 1849 and 1900.”
Contains: Bibliography
Author: Thomas J. Tobin
Keywords:
Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
“Romanticism On the Net is a Peer-reviewed, Electronic Journal devoted to Romantic and Victorian studies. This quarterly journal is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. “
Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis,
Author: Michael Eberle Sinatra
Keywords:
Romanticism On the Net
http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2007/v/n46/index.html
“Romanticism On the Net is a Peer-reviewed, Electronic Journal devoted to Romantic studies. This quarterly journal is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.” This journal has the full text of its articles on line.
Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis, Character Analysis
Keywords:
Scottish Authors
http://www.slainte.org.uk/CILIPS/publications/scotauth/scauhome.htm
This site provides biographical information and links for Scottish authors born since 1320, with a lot of emphasis on the period between 1700 and 1900.
Author: SLAINTE – Scottlish Libraries Across the INTErnet
From: Discovering Scottish Writers Scottish Library Association
Keywords:
Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories
http://www.victorianweb.org/books/suicide/contents.html
Examines the social role of suicide in Victorian England and its reflection in the literary works of that time.
Contains: Historical Context
Author: Barbara T. Gates
From: The Victorian Web Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1988
Keywords:
Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/
This extensive site contains a plethora of well-written undergraduate student essays on Victorian literature as well as the cultural and political situations that influenced it.
Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis, Bibliography
Author: George Landow
From: Victorian Web
Keywords:
The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1900
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp24172
“The argument of this book is that in late Victorian England a group ofnovelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found ideas inpost-Darwinian biology that were peculiarly susceptible to imaginativetransformation. The period 1860-1900 was a time of great confusion in biology; the natural selection hypothesis was in retreat before its acute critics, and no extension of evolutionary theory to human affairs was too bizarre to attract its quota of enthusiasts. Writers capitalised on this prevailing uncertainty and used it to their own artistic or polemic ends.”
Contains: Historical Context,
Author: Morton, Peter
From: Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1984
Keywords: Darwin, Biology, Social Darwinism
WHAT’S A GUINEA? Money and Coinage in Victorian and 20th Century Britain
http://www.web40571.clarahost.co.uk/currency/PreDecimal/predecimal.htm
This site explains the curious monetary system of pre-1968 Britain. Find here the relationships between pence, shillings, pounds, florins, sovreigns, crowns, half-crowns and guineas.
Contains: Historical Context,
Author: Paul Lewis
Keywords:

Authors in British: 19th Century literature:

Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888)Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)
Anne Bannerman (1780? – 1829)Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743 – 1825)
Sir James M. Barrie (1860 – 1937)E.F. Benson (1867 – 1940)
William Blake (1757 – 1827)Charlotte Bronte (1816 – 1855)
Anne Bronte (1820 – 1849)Emily Bronte (1818 – 1848)
Robert Browning (1812 – 1889)Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861)
Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803 – 1873)James Burnley (1842 – 1919)
Frances Burney (1752 – 1840)Lord George Byron (1788 – 1824)
Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898)
Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889)Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924)Sir Herbert Croft (1751 – 1816)
Thomas De Quincey (1785 – 1859)Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881)Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867 – 1900)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930)George Du Maurier (1834 – 1896)
Maria Edgeworth (1767 – 1849)George Eliot (1819 – 1880)
Michael Field (1848 – 1913)Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 – 1865)
George Gissing (1857 – 1903)William Godwin (1756 – 1836)
Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928)Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859)
Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936)Charles Lamb (1775 – 1834)
Mary Ann Lamb (1764 – 1847)Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 – 1873)
M. G. Lewis (1775 – 1818)George MacDonald (1824 – 1905)
Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947)Charles Robert Maturin (1782 – 1824)
Charlotte Mew (1869 – 1929)E. Nesbit (1858 – 1924)
Amelia Opie (1769 – 1853)
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 – 1894)Saki (1870 – 1916)
Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832)Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 – 1851)
P. B. Shelley (1792 – 1822)M. P. Shiel (1865 – 1947)
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 – 1806)Robert Southey (1774 – 1843)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894)Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909)
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809 – 1892)William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863)
Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882)H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946)
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823 – 1901)


Last Updated Mar 25, 2014