Literary Criticism, Volume 5: Edited by S. T. Joshi (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798447225902)

This final volume of Leslie Stephen's essays on literary criticism include trenchant pieces on many of the leading writers of Victorian England: the novelists Charlotte Brontë, Charles Kingsley, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton; the historians Thomas Babington Macaulay and Thomas Carlyle; the cultural critic John Ruskin; and the poet Robert Browning. This volume also includes Stephen's three essays on American literature-on the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, the poet James Russell Lowell, and American dialect humor of the mid-19th century. In addition, Stephen wrote a comprehensive essay on the novels of Honoré de Balzac as well as a searing review of the deficiencies of Hippolyte Taine's History of English Literature. As in all his essays, Stephen here displays a sensitivity to the philosophical and aesthetic thought behind literary works as well as a deep humanity that is not afraid to pass moral judgments on authors and their works. His criticism was pioneering in his day and remains a vital contribution to the literature of its era.

Author: S. T. Joshi, Leslie Stephen
ISBN-10: 8447225909
ISBN-13: 9798447225902
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2022
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d