Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

by Bomarito, Jessica

• ISBN13: 9780787686482
• ISBN10: 0787686484
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-31
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Summary

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately four to eight literary figures who died between 1800 and 1899 by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among the topics profiled in this volume are: ul li Child Labour in 19th Century Literature li Food in 19th Century Literature li South Literature of the Reconstruction /ul

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Literary Criticism Series Advisory Board	xiii
Buddhism in the Nineteenth-Century Western World
Introduction	1	(1)
Representative Works	1	(2)
Overviews	3	(44)
Buddhism and Western Philosophers	47	(27)
Buddhism in Western Literature	74	(14)
Further Reading	88	(1)
Decadence in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Introduction	89	(1)
Representative Works	89	(1)
Overviews	90	(42)
Decadent Literary Subjects	132	(12)
Decadence in British Literature	144	(14)
Decadence in French Literature	158	(21)
Women Writers and Decadence	179	(11)
Further Reading	190	(2)
Gender in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Introduction	192	(1)
Representative Works	193	(2)
Overviews	195	(61)
Gender and Race	256	(27)
Gender and Men	283	(26)
Gender and Class	309	(11)
Gender and the Text	320	(31)
Further Reading	351	(4)
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Author Index	355	(106)
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Topic Index	461	(14)
NCLC Cumulative Nationality Index	475