The Victorian Age
By Petru Golban
Published: 10 November 2025 [Literature Series: 11]
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English Literature Advancing Through History – 6: The Victorian Age offers a clear, rigorous, and engaging exploration of one of the richest eras in British literary culture. Continuing Petru Golban’s acclaimed eight-volume series, this book traces the development of Victorian literature within its dynamic social, intellectual, and artistic contexts.
Combining theoretical insight with accessible literary analysis, Golban examines major movements—from realism and naturalism to aestheticism and the avant-garde—and illuminates the works of major voices such as Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Tennyson, Wilde, Hardy, and the Pre-Raphaelites.
Designed both as an academic study and a practical teaching aid, this volume offers students, scholars, and general readers a comprehensive guide to the literary systems, traditions, and innovations that shaped the Victorian Age. It provides a structured pathway for understanding how literature evolves through history—and how the Victorian imagination continues to resonate today.
Petru Golban holds a PhD in English and American literature from Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. He currently teaches literary theory and English literature-related classes at Tekirdag Namik Kemal University, Turkey. He is also the author of some 70 critical studies, including 11 books, among which A History of the Bildungsroman: From Ancient Beginnings to Romanticism (2018) and Victorian Fiction as a Bildungsroman: Its Flourishing and Complexity (2019). His research concerns encompass particular aspects of English literature, comparative literary studies, and literary theory and criticism.
Product Details:
ISBN: 978-1-80135-174-4 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-80135-175-1 (digital)
Publisher: Transnational Press London
Published: 10 November 2025
Language: English
Pages: 189
Binding: Paperback
Interior Ink: Black & white
Weight (approx.): 0.65 kg
Dimensions (approx.): 15cm wide x 23cm tall