Victorian Literature 1830 1900
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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 | : Jane Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 9780747520511 |
Author | : Katherine Byrne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521766672 |
This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.
Author | : James Eli Adams |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2012-01-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470672390 |
Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors. Part of the Blackwell Histories of Literature series, the book describes the development of the Victorian literary movement and places it within its cultural, social and political context. A wide-ranging narrative overview of literature in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, capturing the extraordinary variety of literary output produced during this era Analyzes the development of all literary forms during this period - the novel, poetry, drama, autobiography and critical prose - in conjunction with major developments in social and intellectual history Considers the ways in which writers engaged with new forms of social responsibility in their work, as Britain transformed into the world's first industrial economy Offers a fresh perspective on the work of both major figures and some of the era’s less familiar authors Winner of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award, 2009
Author | : Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674772854 |
'The Rise of Respectable Society' offers a new map of this territory as revealed by close empirical studies of marriage, the family, domestic life, work, leisure and entertainment in 19th century Britain.
Author | : Joseph Bristow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2000-10-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521646802 |
This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
Author | : Edwin M. Eigner |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1985-11-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521275200 |
By the end of the nineteenth century the novel unquestionably had become the most popular and influential of English literary forms. Yet it has not always been clear how the Victorians themselves regarded the nature of prose fiction. This volume is a collection of twelve 'landmark' essays that chart the development of English theories of fiction during the great age of the novel. Spanning the whole of the Victorian period, from Bulwer Lytton's 'On Art in Fiction' (1838) to Conrad's preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897), the volume also includes pieces by George Eliot, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and a number of the more important critics and reviewers of the time. The editors' introduction surveys the main issues, such as the debate between realism and romance, addressed by novel criticism throughout the period. Each of the selections that follow is set in its historical context by a prefatory essay and is fully annotated for the student. There is a helpful bibliography of further reading.
Author | : Martin Middeke |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110376717 |
Part I of this authoritative handbook offers systematic essays, which deal with major historical, social, philosophical, political, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the English novel between 1830 and 1900. The essays offer a wide scope of aspects such as the Industrial Revolution, religion and secularisation, science, technology, medicine, evolution or the increasing mediatisation of the lifeworld. Part II, then, leads through the work of more than 25 eminent Victorian novelists. Each of these chapters provides both historical and biographical contextualisation, overview, close reading and analysis. They also encourage further research as they look upon the work of the respective authors at issue from the perspectives of cultural and literary theory.
Author | : Philip Steer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2020-01-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108484425 |
A transnational study of how settler colonialism remade the Victorian novel and political economy by challenging ideas of British identity.
Author | : Anna Krugovoy Silver |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2002-08-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139434802 |
Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness - in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. In addition, Silver relates these literary expressions to the representation of women's bodies in the conduct books, beauty manuals and other non-fiction prose of the period, contending that women 'performed' their gender and class alliances through the slender body. Silver discusses a wide range of writers including Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll to show that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviours of the anorexic girl or woman.