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Francis O'Gorman and Katherine Turner, eds. The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century. Reassessing the Tradition.(Book review)
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Dickens Quarterly
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September 1, 2006
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Francis O'Gorman and Katherine Turner, eds. The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century. Reassessing the Tradition. Aldershot/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xvi + 268. $99.95/52.50 [pounds sterling].
O'Gorman's and Turner's volume on Victorian attitudes towards the eighteenth century is a readable and informative collectionof eleven essays that spans a wide range of subjects and issues. Each focuses on major authors and their frequently ambivalent attitudes towards the eighteenth century: Dickens and his relation to Fielding (Helen Small); George Eliot and Rousseau (Simon Dentith); Ruskin and the Sublime (Dinah Birch); and Leslie Stephen's English Men of Letters (David ...
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