A History of Nineteenth-century Literature (1780-1895)

Fiction & Literature, Poetry

• Author: George Saintsbury
• ISBN: 1230000141472
• Publisher: VolumesOfValue
• Publication: June 13, 2013
• Language: English

This edition features a linked Table of Contents

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
The Starting-point—Cowper—Crabbe—Blake—Burns—Minor Poets—The Political Satirists—Gifford—Mathias—Dr. Moore, etc.—Paine—Godwin—Holcroft—Beckford, etc.—Mrs. Radcliffe and "Monk" Lewis—Hannah More—Gilpin location
CHAPTER II THE NEW POETRY
Wordsworth—Coleridge—Southey—Scott—Byron—Shelley—Keats— Rogers—Campbell—Moore—Leigh Hunt—Hogg—Landor—Minor Poets born before Tennyson—Beddoes—Sir Henry Taylor—Mrs. Hemans and L, E. L.—Hood and Praed location
CHAPTER III THE NEW FICTION
Interval—Maturin—Miss Edgeworth—Miss Austen—The Waverley Novels—Hook—Bulwer—Dickens—Thackeray—Marryat—Lever—Minor Naval Novelists—Disraeli—Peacock—Borrow—Miss Martineau—Miss Mitford location
CHAPTER IV THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERIODICALS.
New Periodicals at the beginning of the Century—Cobbett—The Edinburgh Review—Jeffrey—Sydney Smith—The Quarterly—Blackwood's and the London Magazines—Lamb—Hazlitt—Wilson—Lockhart—De Quincey—Leigh Hunt—Hartley Coleridge—Maginn and Fraser—Sterling and the Sterling Club—Edward FitzGerald—Barham location
CHAPTER V THE HISTORIANS OF THE CENTURY
Occasional Historians—Hallam—Roscoe—Mitford—Lingard—Turner—Palgrave—The Tytlers—Alison—Milman—Grote and Thirlwall—Arnold—Macaulay—Carlyle—Minor Figures—Buckle—Kinglake—Freeman and Green—Froude location
CHAPTER VI THE SECOND POETICAL PERIOD
Tennyson—Mr. and Mrs. Browning—Matthew Arnold—The Præ-Raphaelite Movement—Rossetti—Miss Rossetti—O'Shaughnessy—Thomson—Minor Poets—Lord Houghton—Aytoun—The Spasmodics—Minor Poets—Clough—Locker—The Earl of Lytton—Humorous Verse-Writers—Poetesses 253
CHAPTER VII THE NOVEL SINCE 1850
Changes in the Novel—Miss Brontë—George Eliot—Charles Kingsley—The Trollopes—Reade—Minor Novelists—Stevenson location
CHAPTER VIII PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
CHAPTER IX LATER JOURNALISM AND CRITICISM IN ART AND LETTERS
CHAPTER X SCHOLARSHIP AND SCIENCE
CHAPTER XI DRAMA
CHAPTER XII CONCLUSION