A European Version Of Victorian Fiction
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Author | : Michael Wheeler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317896084 |
Professor Wheeler's widely-acclaimed survey of the nineteenth-century fiction covers both the major writers and their works and encompasses the genres and "minor" fiction of the period. This excellent introduction and reference source has been revised for this second edition to include new material on lesser-known writers and a comprehensively updated bibliography.
Author | : Talia Schaffer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199781052 |
Novel Craft explores an intriguing and under-studied aspect of cultural life in Victorian England: domestic handicrafts, the decorative pursuit that predated the Arts and Crafts movement. Talia Schaffer argues that the handicraft movement served as a way to critique the modern mass-produced commodity and the rapidly emerging industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century. Her argument is illustrated with the four pivotal novels that form her study's core-Gaskell's Cranford, Yonge's The Daisy Chain, Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, and Oliphant's Phoebe Junior. Each features various handicrafts that subtly aim to subvert the socioeconomic changes being wrought by industrialization. Schaffer goes beyond straightforward textual analysis by shaping each chapter around the individual craft at the center of each novel (paper for Cranford, flowers and related arts in The Daisy Chain, rubbish and salvage in Our Mutual Friend, and the contrasting ethos of arts and crafts connoisseurship in Phoebe Junior). The domestic handicraft also allows for self-referential analysis of the text itself; in scenes of craft production (and destruction), the authors articulate the work they hope their own fictions perform. The handicraft also becomes a locus for critiquing contemporary aesthetic trends, with the novels putting forward an alternative vision of making value and understanding art. A work that combines cultural history and literary studies, Novel Craft highlights how attention to the handicraft movement's radically alternative views of materiality, consumption, production, representation, and subjectivity provides a fresh perspective on the major changes that shaped the Victorian novel as a whole.
Author | : Dorothy Mermin |
Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 1184 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
This new anthology emphasizes Victorian nonfiction prose and verse with a generous, fresh selection of pieces from authors within the canon as well as outside of it.
Author | : L. Hadley |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2010-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230317499 |
Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a commitment to historical specificity and understands them within their contemporary context and the context of Victorian historical and literary narratives.
Author | : Kate Mitchell |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2010-07-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230283128 |
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary.
Author | : Francis O'Gorman |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470779853 |
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Author | : G. Law |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2000-10-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0230286747 |
Drawing on extensive archival research in both Britain and the United States, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press represents the first comprehensive study of the publication of instalment fiction in Victorian newspapers. Often overlooked, this phenomenon is shown to have exerted a crucial influence on the development of the fiction market in the last decades of the nineteenth century. A detailed description of the practice of syndication is followed by a wide-ranging discussion of its implications for readership, authorship, and fictional form.
Author | : Matthew Sussman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108832946 |
Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.
Author | : S. Tomaiuolo |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2012-07-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1137008180 |
The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon.
Author | : Alexis Weedon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351875868 |
Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers-including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliver & Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and T&A Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from 1836 to 1916, this book interprets broad trends in the growth and diversity of book publishing in Victorian Britain. Chapters explore the significance of the export trade to the colonies and the rising importance of towns outside London as centres of publishing; the influence of technological change in increasing the variety and quantity of books; and how the business practice of literary publishing developed to expand the market for British and American authors. The book takes examples from the purchase and sale of popular fiction by Ouida, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Ewing, and canonical authors such as George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and Mark Twain. Consideration of the unique demands of the educational market complements the focus on fiction, as readers, arithmetic books, music, geography, science textbooks, and Greek and Latin classics became a staple for an increasing number of publishing houses wishing to spread the risk of novel publication.