Annoying the VictoriansRoutledge, 2013 M10 23 - 284 pages What happens when bad criticism happens to good people? Annoying the Victorians sets the tradition of critical discourse and literary criticism on its ear, as well as a few other areas. James Kincaid brings his witty, erudite and thoroughly cynical self to the Victorians, and they will never read (or be read) quite the same. |
Contents
Fattening Up on Pickwick | 21 |
Little NellShe Dead | 35 |
Viewing and Blurring with Dickens | 47 |
4 | 69 |
Performance Roles the Self and Our Own Charles Dickens | 75 |
Who Is Relieved by the Idea of Comic Relief? | 91 |
Tennysons Happy Losses | 99 |
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