Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...field of inquiry what he calls "the imagination of society," the ways in which writers represent the social world in language and at the same time become the self-consciousness of their society. For the most part, the social imagination with which Marcus is concerned is that of Victorian Britain, conceived as a crucial period in Western culture's response to the coming of industrial capitalism. So broad an undertaking requires Marcus to expand the range of materials traditionally available to the critic. Alongside those writers whose interpretation of society appears in overtly imaginative, fictional form, he places social theorists...
Updike's vision is a modest one, humorously self-tolerant, seeing in the writer's work a way of life which, if no longer world-jarring, is at least meaningful to himself and a few others. The heyday of the Victorian novel is past; the effort to capture the rush of perishable existence died with Joyce and Lawrence; the author-as-hero is gone with Camus and Hemingway; and in their place is now the professional writer, making a living like anyone else. This is a truthful image because, as Updike remarks in "One Big Interview...
Visiting the second of the closets first, the entourage drove to a predominantly black neighborhood in northern San Francisco, where ungraciously aging Victorian structures line the streets. Some 150 newsmen and photographers were already waiting at 1827 Golden Gate Ave. when Patty arrived in a green Plymouth. In the crush, U.S. marshals formed a flying wedge to lead Patty...
...Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde's marvelously farcical parody of Victorian love. At the Lyric Stage, 565 Boylston St., in Copley Square, through March 28. Performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees...
Sykes never shies away from ethical judgments, and sometimes seems to be writing a Victorian headmaster's report on a wayward but talented boy. The really nagging questions about Waugh--Why does he seem to have been such a reprehensible snob? and Why were his political views so crustily troglodytic?--are fully and fairly dealt with. Waugh is not exonerated, but is saved from the coarser kind of misinterpretation. "His belief in the right kind of people was very much weaker than his belief that there are wrong kinds," Sykes says mournfully. Waugh identified himself wholeheartedly with an old order...