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| Author | : Joanna Hofer-Robinson |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2019-04-03 |
| Genre | : English drama |
| ISBN | : 1474439551 |
This pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century.
| Author | : Hofer-Robinson Joanna Hofer-Robinson |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2019-04-03 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 147443956X |
Features previously unpublished material alongside famous plays This pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century. Characterised by exhilarating plots, large-scale special effects and often transgressive characterisation, these dramas are still exciting for modern readers. This anthology lays the foundation for further scholarly work on sensation drama and focuses public attention on to this influential and immensely popular genre. It features five plays from writers including Dion Boucicault and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. These are supported by a substantial critical apparatus, which adds further value to the anthology by providing rich details on performance history and textual variants. The critical introduction situates the genre in its cultural context and argues for the significance of sensation drama to shifting theatrical cultures and practices.Key FeaturesProvides detailed critical apparatus to facilitate the study of neglected plays, including performance history, notes and recommended further readingWidens the critical conversation on sensation drama by drawing attention to the work of female playwrightsReprints obscure works by popular authors and shows their involvement with both literary and theatrical cultures
| Author | : Carolyn Williams |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2018-10-04 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 110709593X |
A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.
| Author | : Lynn M. Voskuil |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780813922690 |
Voskuil argues that Victorian Britons saw themselves as "authentically performative," a paradoxical belief that focused their sense of vocation as individuals, as a public, and as a nation.
| Author | : Sara Lodge |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2024-11-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300277881 |
A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account--and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women's lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine who got the better of love rats, burglars, and murderers alike. How did the morally ambiguous work of real women detectives, sometimes paid to betray their fellow women, compare with the exploits of their fictional counterparts, who always save the day? Lodge's book takes us into the murky underworld of Victorian society on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the female detective as both an unacknowledged labourer and a feminist icon.
| Author | : David Malcolm |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2019-09-27 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 1474448372 |
Hubert Crackanthorpe was a skilful and technically innovative English realist/naturalist writer. This edition of his powerful first collection of short stories features a carefully contextualised introduction to the A01 and his work.
| Author | : Lee Michael-Berger |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2023-05-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000874745 |
Modern Murders is the first comprehensive study of murder representations during the turn of the century, drawing on previously neglected archival material to explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic contexts of the period. Most studies view the abundance of murder representations throughout the nineteenth century as an indicator of a supposedly typical Victorian appetite for sensation and melodrama. Modern Murders, however, demonstrates the turn of the century's backlash against melodramatic and sensational representations of murder and reads them as an important component in the struggles for better aesthetic standards in art and entertainment, and as a dominant feature in the debates on mass culture. Through a plethora of visual and written texts, representations of fictional and actual "real life" murders, and "high" and "popular" forms of writing, the volume considers the importance of murder in the elite claim to cultural authority versus its perception of plebian taste, in the context of the democratization of culture. This book will be of value to scholars and graduate students in a variety of research areas, as well as general readers interested in the role of murder as a central trope in modern art and culture.
| Author | : Marie Corelli |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2019-04-10 |
| Genre | : Christian life |
| ISBN | : 1474441920 |
Marie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel.
| Author | : Nicoll |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 586 |
| Release | : 2009-08-16 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521109338 |
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
