Reason Over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel

ISBN-10
0312665334
ISBN-13
9780312665333
Category
Feminism and literature
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
Valerie Sanders

Description

Rosenbaum presents The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group, a subtle and powerful picture of the Bloomsbury Group, showing clearly what has been vague--their beginnings in the Victorian era, before 'human character changed' (as Virginia Woolf said). Rosenbaum is an unparalleled interpreter of the philosophical as well as the literary traditions absorbed by this group.--Richard Ellman. . . . thorough and knowledgeable . . . --Library Journal.

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