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An English Garner: Critical Essays & Literary Fragments

An English Garner: Critical Essays & Literary Fragments

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Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354841015
ISBN13: 9789354841019
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 21 2021
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A fresh voice in a familiar canon, An English Garner invites readers to walk the corridors of Victorian Britain with a discerning companion: John Churton Collins. This finely crafted essay collection gathers critical essays, literary criticism, and thoughtful literary analysis from a master of early English criticism. Read as a unified conversation about rhetoric, style, and authorship, the book offers a clear, engaging entry point for student readers and a rich mine for scholars alike. Its themes traverse the drama of national literature, the faults and glories of Victorian Britain, and the enduring methods by which critics read a text. Historically significant as a bridge between nineteenth-century rigorous criticism and modern literary study, the work stands as a touchstone for Victorian literary criticism and British nineteenth century scholarship. It illuminates how scholars of Collins's era approached form, voice, and influence, and how those debates shape today's understanding of canonical writers. This edition is more than a reprint. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today's and future generations. A collector's item and a cultural treasure, An English Garner invites casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike to reconsider a pivotal period through sharper eyes and a careful, appreciative heart.

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