Books by Charles Lamb
“For all their irony, or rather through their irony, I came to find in Lamb’s essays a suggestive alternative to major questions of social life that were circulating around the same time as the writings of the Utilitarians.” Read more...
David Russell on The Victorian Essay
David Russell, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Charles Lamb were recommended
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Selected Prose
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Culture and Anarchy and Other Writings
by Matthew Arnold -
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Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
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The Hands of the Living God: An Account of a Psychoanalytic Treatment
by Marion Milner
David Russell on The Victorian Essay
David Russell on The Victorian Essay
With the advent of the Victorian age, polite maxims of eighteenth-century essays in the Spectator were replaced by a new generation of writers who thought deeply—and playfully—about social relationships, moral responsibility, education and culture. Here, Oxford literary critic David Russell explores the distinct qualities that define the Victorian essay and recommends five of its greatest practitioners.
