Victorian Literature Modern Essays in CR

by Austin Wright

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1961

About the author

Austin McGiffert Wright was a novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati.
He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, son of the geographer John Kirtland Wright and Katharine McGiffert Wright, and namesake of his uncle, Austin Tappan Wright, writer of the utopian novel, Islandia. He graduated from Harvard University in 1943. He served in the Army (1943–1946). He graduated from the University of Chicago, with a master's degree in 1948, and a Ph.D. in 1959.

He married Sara Hull Wright, in 1950. They had three children: Joanna Wright (died 2000), Katharine Wright of Berkeley, CA, and Margaret Wright, and two granddaughters, Madeline Giscombe and Elizabeth Perkins.

Reviews

[Lorraine · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely thoroughly enjoyed this. It's a collection of criticism published in 1960, most of it from the thirties and forties. Only a single woman is included (Virginia Woolf) which is a major flaw, but overall, the essays are very readable and illustrate early to mid-twentieth-century perspectives on Victorian literature. The essay by Lord Cecil David is utterly delightful and a must-read.