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Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature

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Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature - Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert
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Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Victorian Afterlives sets out to recover this atmosphere, and to explain why its pressures are still being exercised on and in our own ways of thinking. Moving freely between different fields of inquiry (including literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science), and written ...

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Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature 2004, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199269310

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Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature 2002, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198187271

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