The age of eclecticism : literature and culture in Britain, 1815-1885 /
"The burden of the past" invoked by any discussion of eclecticism is a familiar aspect of modernity, particularly in the history of literature. This book aims to place this dynamic in a broader context by examining the rise of a manifold eclecticism in the nineteenth century. It focuses on...
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16qk3dt |
Table of Contents:
- History's diverse beauties
- The philosophy of the nineteenth century
- Eclecticism and literary modernity
- Alfred Tennyson : the originality of medley
- Charles Kingsley : the Alexandrian age
- Matthew Arnold : the second best life
- Walter Pater and Thomas Hardy : "triumph in mutability."