The Edinburgh professor George Saintsbury surveys more than a century of English writing, from the end of the eighteenth century to 1895. Chapters cover the new poetry of the Romantics, the new fiction, the rise of the periodicals, the historians, the second poetic generation, the novel after 1850, philosophy and theology, criticism, scholarship and science, and drama.
Opinionated and vastly well read, a Victorian critic’s map of his own century. Download the free EPUB.