Studies in Victorian and modern literature : a tribute to John Sutherland / edited by William Baker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, William, 1944- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction fiction.

American fiction fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Publishers and publishing.

Sutherland, John, 1938-.

Sutherland, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Place of Publication:

Madison, [Wisconsin] ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland's work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles.</span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: The Publishing Dimension; 1 Reconsidering the Unknown Public; 2 The Blackwood Female Literary Network, 1880-1910; 3 Trace Collaboration and the Problem of Evidence; 4 Margaret Oliphant and the Changing House of Blackwood; 5 Wheels of Desire; 2: Victorians Major and Minor; 6 Moral Puzzles in Adam Bede; 7 Structure, Tone, and Temper in Charles Lever's Lord Kilgobbin; 8 Sister Acts; 9 Why Did William Butler Yeats Leave William Allingham Out?; 10 Again the Zelig Effect; 11 Beyond Pickwick; 12 Another "Spoiling Hand" at Work on Middlemarch?

13 Rethinking the Endings of Great Expectations14 "Erect His Statue and Worship It"; 15 The Satirist Satirized; 3: Non-Victorians and Puzzles; 16 The Elephant in the Classroom; 17 The Inheritors; 18 Two Quiet Years; 19 "Where Are Our Moral Foundations?"; 20 The Archaeology of Pride and Prejudice; 21 The Fallen Idol; 22 My Collaboration with John Sutherland; 23 Angelica's Susan; 4: John Sutherland's Life and Work; 24 John Sutherland; 25 Some of His Many Books; 26 A Lesson in Tact; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61147-693-3

OCLC:

914151273