Mastery And Slavery In Victorian Writing
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Author | : J. Taylor |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2002-12-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230554733 |
Taking Hegel's famous " Master-Slave Dialectic " as its starting point, this wide-ranging book examines portrayals of masters, slaves and servants in works by Carlyle, Dickens, Eliot, Collins and others. The questions raised about modern mastery and slavery are pursued in relation to intriguing nineteenth-century figures as the American slave-holder, the musician, the demagogue and the Jew.
Author | : Leah Price |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2012-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400842182 |
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Author | : Julia Sun-Joo Lee |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2010-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195390326 |
This title explores the influence of the American slave narrative on the Victorian novel. The book argues that Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and Robert Louis Stevenson integrated into their works elements of the slave narrative.
Author | : Natalie Prizel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2024-05-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0192888560 |
Explores the way that characters and figures in Victorian literature and visual art encountered and observed the bodies of others, particularly those bodies which were aberrant, deformed, and disabled.
Author | : Roger Ebbatson |
Publisher | : Critical Inventions |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
In Roger Ebbatson's new book, Marx, Simmel, Benjamin and, above all, Heidegger are unleashed on a range of Victorian texts, and the results are alarming. Ebbatson begins with Tennyson, overshadowed by empire and homosocial tensions, and ends with Conan Doyle writing about a bicycle belonging to a character called Heidegger. In between, he makes bone-shaking progress over a Victorian terrain marked out by Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Louis Stevenson. And along the way, Ebbatson considers shipwrecks, money, nature, the South Seas Mission, and 'final solutions'. Tennyson, we discover, was afraid of his own shadow, Hopkins's greatest poem was created by erratic compasses, Hardy wrote like Kafka, Stevenson was drawn to murderous missionaries, and Conan Doyle applauded the concentration camp. Ebbatson shows us that what the Germans bring to our understanding of the 19th century is a terrible awareness of the darkest moments of the 20th century.
Author | : Ilyon Woo |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2024-01-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501191063 |
In December 1848, a young enslaved couple named Ellen and William Craft traveled openly by rail, coach and steamship from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen, who passed for white, disguised herself as a wealthy disabled man, with William as "his" slave. Woo follows their journey north, and in joining the abolitionist lecture circuit. When the new Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 put them at risk, they fled from the United States. Their very existence challenged the nation's core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all. -- Adapted from jacket.
Author | : Kevin Mills |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838756270 |
"Written for scholars and students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels with an interest in modern literary studies, this book will also appeal to anyone interested in the Victorian era, biblical studies, the history of ideas, literature and myth, and theology."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Daniel Bivona |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780719029547 |
Analyzing literary and historical texts, this book examines the relationship between representations of imperial issues and the domestic social and cultural questions which are enmeshed with them in Victorian Britain.
Author | : William A. Cohen |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0816650128 |
"In these elegant engagements with literary works, cultural history, and critical theory, Cohen advances a phenomenological approach to embodiment, proposing that we encounter the world not through our minds or souls but through our senses."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Jonathan Taylor |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2019-02-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030114139 |
Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930 investigates the strange, complex, even paradoxical relationship between laughter, on the one hand, and violence, war, horror, death, on the other. It does so in relation to philosophy, politics, and key nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary texts, by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Gosse, Wyndham Lewis and Katherine Mansfield – texts which explore the far reaches of Schadenfreude, and so-called ‘superiority theories’ of laughter, pushing these theories to breaking point. In these literary texts, the violent superiority often ascribed to laughter is seen as radically unstable, co-existing with its opposite: an anarchic sense of equality. Laughter, humour and comedy are slippery, duplicitous, ambivalent, self-contradictory hybrids, fusing apparently discordant elements. Now and then, though, literary and philosophical texts also dream of a different kind of laughter, one which reaches beyond its alloys – a transcendent, ‘perfect’ laughter which exists only in and for itself.