Quotes Tagged "19th-century"

So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping pleasure, his half-secret, his romantic passion. In the long-suppressed novel Maurice the title character blurts out his truth, 'I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.' It must have felt that way when Forster came of sexual age in the last years of the 19th century: seriously risky and dangerously blurt-able. The public cry had caught Wilde, exposed and arrested him, broken him in prison. He was one face of anxiety to Forster; his mother was another. As long as she lived (and they lived together until she died, when he was 66), he couldn't let her know.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.

The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.