Annoying the Victorians

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Routledge, 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
Tennyson Hallams Corpse Miltons Murder
113
H Rider Haggards The Return of She An Explication
169
Anthony Trollope and the Unmannerly Novel
207
The Power of Barchester Towers
225
Notes
255
Index
269
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James Kincaid is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture, (1992).

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