Books Quote by John Bowen

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“Victorian novels come to us, that is, poised between questions of outer and inner, public and private life; they tend to contrast and nally…

— Hilary Schor

For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never to repeat.…

— David Cannadine

“One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different…

— Neal Stephenson

I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm…

— Jennifer Egan

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles…

— Mark Leyner

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

— A. N. Wilson

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

— Ellen Glasgow

“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it…

— Franz Rottensteiner

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and…

— Ted Baillieu

It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which…

— Margery Allingham