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The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature

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The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature
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Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9780814210406
ISBN-13 : 0814210406
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Book Synopsis The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature by : Stefanie Markovits

Book excerpt: "We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.


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