Victorians and Mystery

Crises of Representation

• Author(s): William David Shaw,
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Pages: 370
• ISBN_10: 0801424038
  ISBN_13: 9780801424038
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory ,

Description:... Victorian literature, according to Shaw, gives rise to a wealth of questions and mysteries. Addressing crises of representation in poetry, fiction, and nonfictional prose in light of similar crises in philosophical, theological, and scientific literature, Shaw here examines the nature and sources of Victorian mystery.