Victor Shea - Victorian Literature: An Anthology

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EDITED BY

VICTOR SHEA AND WILLIAM WHITLA

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Victorian literature : an anthology / edited by Victor Shea and William Whitla.
pagescm. (Blackwell anthologies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-8865-4 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-4051-8874-6 (paper)1.English literature19th century.
I.Shea, Victor, 1960 editor.II.Whitla, William, 1934 editor.
PR1145.V524 2015
820.8008dc23

2014007436

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881 by William Powell Frith. One of the three focuses in the painting is the group of aesthetes listening to Oscar Wilde (with notebook and sunflower in his lapel). To Wildes left are the actors Ellen Terry and Sir Henry Irving. Further over his opponents glower, led by the journalist George Augustus Sala (white waistcoat). To Wildes right is the actress Lillie Langtry, a society wit and beauty, beside William Thomson, archbishop of York (in top hat). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Private_View_at_the_Royal_Academy,_1881.

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