From Dickens to Hardy, Volym 6From Dickens to HardyGuide to English Lit SeriesVolym 6 av New Pelican guide to English literature, Boris FordPelican Books, Penguin literary criticism

This volume covers the period from Dickens to Hardy. It begins with an account of the social and intellectual context of English literature during the Victorian period, followed by a survey of the literature itself. The rest of the book is made up of a series of essays dealing in detail with Dickens, Thackeray and Trollope, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Hardy, Carlyle and Ruskin, three autobiographical novelists (Rutherford, Gissing and Butler), Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins and others. There are also two essays on Victorian architecture. The volume also contains an appendix of biographies and bibliographies.