David Russell
David Russell is Associate Professor of English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Previously, he was a Lecturer in English at King’s College London and a Fellow of the Society of Fellows in Humanities at Columbia University. His new book, Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain, was released this year by Princeton University Press.
Books by David Russell
Interviews with David Russell
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Selected Prose
by Charles Lamb -
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Culture and Anarchy and Other Writings
by Matthew Arnold -
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Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings
by George Eliot -
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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.
