The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Prose, 1832-1901
The Victorian era witnessed dramatic transformations in print culture, and this new anthology covers the exciting intellectual and social debates of the period. From first-person accounts of the lives of factory workers to Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic theory, and from narratives of British travelers in Africa and Asia to Havelock Ellis’s theories of "sexual inversion," the surprising diversity of nineteenth-century nonfiction writing is represented. Illustrations from Victorian periodicals provide a vivid sense of the original reading experience.
The book’s thematic organization emphasizes the social and historical contexts of prose writings, as well as the way in which these writings address each other. In addition to a general critical introduction, the anthology features new thematic introductions by experts in the field.
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Acknowledgements
Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge
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A Note on the Text
Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge
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Introduction: Victorian Print Media and the Reading Public, Mary Elizabeth
Leighton and Lisa Surridge
Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge
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LIFE WRITING: Introduction, David Amigoni
David Amigoni
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William Dodd, from A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William
Dodd, A Factory Cripple (1841)
William Dodd
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Alexander Somerville, from The Autobiography of a Working Man (1848)
Alexander Somerville
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John Stuart Mill, from Autobiography (1873)
John Stuart Mill
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Harriet Martineau, from Autobiography (1877)
Harriet Martineau
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Anthony Trollope, from An Autobiography (1883)
Anthony Trollope
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John Ruskin, from Praeterita (1885–89)
John Ruskin
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Annie Besant, from Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893)
Annie Besant
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Oscar Wilde, from De Profundis (written 1897; published 1905)
Oscar Wilde
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Edmund Gosse, from Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (1907)
Edmund Gosse
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Beatrice Webb, from My Apprenticeship (1926)
Beatrice Webb
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THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND SOCIAL REFORM Introduction, Dan Bivona
Dan Bivona
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Harriet Martineau, from Illustrations of Political Economy (1832–34)
Harriet Martineau
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Thomas Carlyle, from Past and Present (1843)
Thomas Carlyle
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Friedrich Engels, from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1845; trans. 1887)
Friedrich Engels
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848; trans. 1888)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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Charles Dickens, from “A Walk in a Workhouse” (1850)
Charles Dickens
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Henry Mayhew, from London Labour and the London Poor (1851)
Henry Mayhew
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John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty (1859)
John Stuart Mill
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John Ruskin, from Unto This Last (1860)
John Ruskin
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Octavia Hill, from “Blank Court; or, Landlords and Tenants” (1871)
Octavia Hill
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William Booth, from In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890)
William Booth
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EDUCATION: Introduction, Janice Schroeder
Janice Schroeder
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Thomas Arnold, from “On the Discipline of Public Schools” (1835)
Thomas Arnold
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Harriet Martineau, from Retrospect of Western Travel (1838)
Harriet Martineau
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Mary Carpenter, from Reformatory Schools, for the Children of the Perishing and
Dangerous Classes, and for Juvenile Offenders (1851)
Mary Carpenter
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John Henry Newman, from Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University
Education Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin (1852)
John Henry Newman
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Henry Morley and Geraldine Jewsbury, from “Instructive Comparisons” (1855)
Henry Morley and Geraldine Jewsbury,
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Frederick Denison Maurice, from Learning and Working: Six Lectures Delivered in Willis’s Rooms, London, in June and July, 1854
Frederick Denison Maurice
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Matthew Arnold, from “Art. VIII.—The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time” (1864)
Matthew Arnold
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Emily Davies, from The Higher Education of Women (1866)
Emily Davies
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Henry Maudsley, from “Sex in Mind and in Education” (1874)
Henry Maudsley
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, from “Sex in Mind and Education: A Reply” (1874)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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John Churton Collins, from “An Educational Crisis, and How to Avert It.—II” (1886)
John Churton Collins
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William Morris, from “English at the Universities” (1886)
William Morris
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John Addington Symonds, from “English at the Universities.—III.” (1886)
John Addington Symonds
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Walter Pater, from “English at the Universities.—IV.” (1886)
Walter Pater
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Matthew Arnold, from “English at the Universities.—IX.” (1887)
Matthew Arnold
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James Anthony Froude, from “English at the Universities.—IX.” (1887)
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AESTHETICS AND CULTURE: Introduction, Dennis Denisoff
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John Ruskin, from The Stones of Venice (1851–53)
John Ruskin
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Anna Jameson, from Legends of the Madonna, as Represented in the Fine Arts (1852)
Anna Jameson
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George Eliot, from Adam Bede (1859)
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Matthew Arnold, from “Culture and Its Enemies” (1867)
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Walter Pater, from Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)
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William Morris, from Hopes and Fears for Art (1882)
William Morris
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James McNeill Whistler, from Mr. Whistler’s “Ten O’Clock” (1885)
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Oscar Wilde, from “The Critic as Artist” (1891)
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Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson, from “Beauty and Ugliness” (1897)
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GENDER AND SEXUALITY: Introduction, Susan Hamilton
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Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and
Domestic Habits (1839)
Sarah Stickney Ellis
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Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, from A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women (1854)
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
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Florence Nightingale, from Suggestions for Thought to the Searchers after Truth among the Artizans of England (1860)
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John Ruskin, from Sesame and Lilies (1865)
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John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869)
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Thomas Hughes, from The Manliness of Christ (1879)
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William Thomas Stead, from “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon” (1885)
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Mona Caird, from “Marriage” (1888)
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John Addington Symonds, from A Problem in Modern Ethics (1891)
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Havelock Ellis, from Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Inversion (1897)
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FAITH AND DOUBT: Introduction, Catherine Harland
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Thomas Carlyle, from Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh (1833–34)
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Benjamin Jowett, from “On the Interpretation of Scripture” (1860)
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John William Colenso, from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined (1862)
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John Henry Newman, from Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864)
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Leslie Stephen, from “An Agnostic’s Apology” (1876)
Leslie Stephen
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Vernon Lee, from “The Responsibilities of Unbelief: A Conversation between Three Rationalists” (1883)
Vernon Lee
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Frances Power Cobbe, from “Agnostic Morality” (1883)
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SCIENCE: Introduction, Bernard Lightman
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Charles Lyell, from Principles of Geology (1830)
Charles Lyell
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Charles Bell, from The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design (1833)
Charles Bell
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Mary Somerville, from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834)
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Robert Chambers, from Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
Robert Chambers
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Herbert Spencer, from Social Statics: or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness
Specified, and the First of Them Developed (1850)
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Philip Henry Gosse, from Evenings at the Microscope (1859)
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Mary Ward, from Telescope Teachings (1859)
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Charles Darwin, from On the Origin of Species (1859)
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Lydia Becker, from “On the Study of Science by Women” (1869)
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Francis Galton, from Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences (1869)
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Charles Darwin, from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)
Charles Darwin
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Richard Proctor, from “A Voyage to the Ringed Planet” (1872)
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Thomas Henry Huxley, from “The Struggle for Human Existence: A Programme” (1888)
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TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: Introduction, Laura Franey
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James Holman, from A Voyage Round the World Including Travels in Africa, Asia,
Australasia, America, etc. etc. from 1827 to 1832 (1834)
James Holman
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Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into Geology & Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle (1839)
Charles Darwin
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Richard F. Burton, from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (1855)
Richard F. Burton
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David Livingstone, from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1857)
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Henry Walter Bates, from The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863)
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Emily Eden, from “Up the Country”: Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India (1866)
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Alfred Russel Wallace, from The Malay Archipelago (1869)
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Henry M. Stanley, from How I Found Livingstone (1872)
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Anthony Trollope, from Australia and New Zealand (1873)
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Florence Dixie, from Across Patagonia (1880)
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Isabella L. Bird, from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880)
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Kate Marsden, from On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers (1891)
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Mary H. Kingsley, from Travels in West Africa Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroon (1897)
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James Anthony Froude, from
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John Ruskin, from The Stones of Venice (1851
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