Beyond Urgency: Shadow Presentisms, Hinge Points, and Victorian Historicisms.
This article examines some of the many scholarly approaches to the legacy of Victorian literary and political history, including the critical culturalstudies angle that descends from the Victorian sages, neoconservative revivals of Victorian liberalism and the culture of "personal responsibility," a...
| Publicado en: | Criticism Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 461 - 480 |
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Wayne State University Press
Fall2019
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