THE HERO IN ECLIPSE IN VICTORIAN FICTION; Translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson
London New York Toronto: Oxford University Press / Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1956. First Edition in English. Cloth. 8vo, black cloth, illustrated with 40 glossy B&W photographic plates, beige dust jacket with black & red printing, [viii] + 478 pages + [2] Colophon. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #1370
Generally recognized as a Very important study of 19th century English authors. Praz wrote superb essays on Romantics such as Coleridge and Wordsworth, Scott and DeQuincy; with more extended discussions of the decline of the hero among the major Victorian novelists: Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, and George Eliot.
Bookplate of Noel Charles Peyrouton, a prominent Dickens' scholar.
Price: $35.00