Arguing With the Past: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney

by Gillian Beer

In this elegantly written collection Gillian Beer considers the difficulty of reading the past in essays on Thomas Carlyle, Philip Sidney, Samuel Richardson, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of English literature and a general readership.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Dame Gillian Beer is a British literary critic and academic, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She was a King Edward VII Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Cambridge as wells as a past President of Clare Hall College. She also spent time as the Andrew Mellon Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art.

Reviews

[Veronica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read some of this for a graduate seminar in Victorian Memory. Intrigue for anyone reading from an academic or creative standpoint. Not the most accessible prose but not jargon-y.