Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Farmington Hills, Mi Gale 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780810399419
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0810399415
Series Statement:
Dictionary of literary biography v. 178
Content:
Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926) - Grant Allen (1848-1899) - F. Anstey (Thomas Anstey Guthrie) (1856-1934) - Edwin L. Arnold (1857-1935) - John Davis Beresford (1873-1947) - Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) - Lew is Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson) (1832-1898) - G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) - George Du Maurier (1834-1896) - E .M. Forster (1879-1970) - Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) - George Griffith (1857-1906) - H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) - William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) - Charles Kingley (1819-1875) - Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) (1856-1935) - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) - Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) - George MacDonald (1824-1905) - Arthur Machen (1863-1947) - Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824) - William Morris (1834-1896) - E. Nesbit (1858-1924) - Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) - Bram Stoker (1847-1912) - H.G. Wells (1866-1946).
Content:
Essays on British writers of fantasy and science fiction during a time when science, technology and industrialization made increasingly impressive inroads from the Enlightenment to World War I. A gradual emphasis on social improvement, including literature, involved efforts to increase literacy through expanding material to read. During this period, publication of newspapers, penny dreadfuls and dime novels lead to pulp magazines and other popular periodicals
Note:
Original 363 p
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Mode of access: Internet.
Language:
English
URL:
Available via Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
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