From Richardson to Pinero : Some Innovators and Idealists / Frederick S. Boas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boas, Frederick S., 1862-1957, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1982]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Brings together studies ranging from the publication of Richardson's first novel in 1740 to the death of Sir Pinero in 1934 and all are linked in that they manifested some form of innovation, independence, or idealism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prefatory Note

I. Introduction

II. Richardson's Novels and Their Influence

III. Thackeray on the Eighteenth-Century Humourist as Hero

IV. Wordsworth's Patriotic Poems and Their Significance To- Day

V. Edmund Kean in His Heroic Parts

VI. Robert Browning's Paracelsvs, 1835-1935

VII. Elizabeth Barrett Browning : In Her Verse and Her Prose

VIII. Arthur Henry Hallam and in Memoriam

IX. Tennyson and the Arthurian Legend

X. Matthew Arnold in His Lyric Verse

XI. Sir Arthur Pinero: Dramatist and Stage-Chronicler

Index

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231882781

0231882785

OCLC:

1100443432