Building on the formula of York Notes, this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. Previous ed.: 1999
Ruth Robbins Ordre des livres (chronologique)
Les travaux universitaires de Ruth Robbins explorent le paysage riche de la littérature anglaise de la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle, avec un accent particulier sur le mouvement Décadent. Son œuvre navigue à travers les complexités de l'autobiographie, de la théorie littéraire et des voix distinctes de figures telles qu'Oscar Wilde et Arnold Bennett. Robbins examine de manière critique comment les contextes littéraires sont façonnés, offrant des analyses perspicaces des styles et des thèmes qui caractérisent cette époque charnière. Son approche procure aux lecteurs une compréhension approfondie d'œuvres significatives et de leurs créateurs.
Was the late nineteenth century 'Victorian' or 'modern'? Why did the New Woman disappear from literary history? Where did T. S. Eliot's poetics of the city come from?In this essential guide, Ruth Robbins explores an era often named an 'age of transition' which exists uneasily between the apparent certainties of the Victorians and the advent of a Modernist aesthetics of instability. Robbins considers some of the central literary categories and themes of the period (decadence, realism, nostalgia, New Woman writing, degeneration, imperialism and early modernism) in writings by both major and 'minor' writers, thereby creating a complex picture of transitions, continuities and breaks with the past. By examining this tumultuous era as an age in its own right, Pater to Forster, 1873-1924 offers the reader a rather different history of the late Victorians and Modernists, and retells that history from a new perspective.