Charles Dickens and other Victorians
Charles Dickens and Other Victorians, published in 1925, collects lectures that Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch gave as King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. The largest part is a sequence of five talks on Dickens, followed by three on Thackeray, a lecture on the Victorian background, and studies of Disraeli and Mrs. Gaskell; a final essay, written for a periodical, argues for a fuller appreciation of Trollope's Barsetshire novels. Quiller-Couch, the critic and novelist known as "Q," writes in a relaxed, conversational manner, mixing personal judgment with an eye for character, comedy and the social world from which these novels came. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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