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Author : Gregory Vargo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107197855
Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.
Author : Katherine Byrne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521766678
This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.
Author : Maia McAleavey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107103160
This study explores the prevalence of bigamy in Victorian fiction to challenge traditional understanding of the period's social and narrative conventions.
Author : Sarah Louise Lill,Rohan McWilliam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429557613
The publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in ways that have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloyd shaped the modern popular press: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with publishing songs and broadsides, Lloyd dominated the fiction market in the early Victorian period issuing Gothic stories such as Varney the Vampire (1845-7) and other 'penny dreadfuls', which became bestsellers. Lloyd's publications introduced the enduring figure of Sweeney Todd whilst his authors penned plagiarisms of Dickens's novels, such as Oliver Twiss (1838-9). Many readers in the early Victorian period may have been as likely to have encountered the author of Pickwick in a Lloyd-published plagiarism as in the pages of the original author. This book makes us rethink the early reception of Dickens. In this interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers, such as Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer. The Lloyd brand shaped popular taste in the age of Dickens and the Chartists. Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism, whilst developing links with Victorian politics, theatre and music.
Author : Dennis Denisoff,Talia Schaffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429018176
The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars.
Author : Martin Hewitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000012217
This study explores the ‘ecology of knowledge’ of urban Britain in the Victorian period and seeks to examine the way in which Victorians comprehended the nature of their urban society, through an exploration of the history of Victorian Manchester, and two specific case studies on the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell and the campaigns for educational extension which emerged out of the city. It argues that crucial to the Victorians’ approaches was the ‘visiting mode’ as a particular discursive formation, including its institutional foundations, its characteristic modes and assumptions, and the texts which exemplify it. Recognition of the importance of the visiting mode, it is argued, offers a fundamental challenge to established Foucauldian interpretations of nineteenthcentury society and culture and provides an important corrective to recent scholarship of nineteenth-century technologies of knowing.
Author : Richard Fallon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108834001
Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920
Author : Adam Abraham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108493079
Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.
Author : Emily Steinlight
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501710728
Introduction : the biopolitical imagination -- Populating solitude : Malthus, the masses, and the romantic subject -- Political animals : the Victorian city, demography, and the politics of creaturely life -- Dickens's supernumeraries -- The sensation novel and the redundant woman questions -- "Because we are too menny
Author : Timothy Gao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108837163
Virtual, paracosmic, fictional -- Authorship, omnipotence, and Charlotte Bronte -- Plotting, improvisation, and Anthony Trollope -- Continuation, attachment, and William Makepeace Thackeray -- Description, projection, and Charles.
Author : Talia Schaffer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691199634
What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novel In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in need. Drawing lessons from Victorian sociality, Schaffer proposes a theory of communal care and a mode of critical reading centered on an ethics of care. In the Victorian era, medical science offered little hope for cure of illness or disability, and chronic invalidism and lengthy convalescences were common. Small communities might gather around afflicted individuals to minister to their needs and palliate their suffering. Communities of Care examines these groups in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, and Charlotte Yonge, and studies the relationships that they exemplify. How do carers become part of the community? How do they negotiate status? How do caring emotions develop? And what does it mean to think of care as an activity rather than a feeling? Contrasting the Victorian emphasis on community and social structure with modern individualism and interiority, Schaffer’s sympathetic readings draw us closer to the worldview from which these novels emerged. Schaffer also considers the ways in which these models of carework could inform and improve practice in criticism, in teaching, and in our daily lives. Through the lens of care, Schaffer discovers a vital form of communal relationship in the Victorian novel. Communities of Care also demonstrates that literary criticism done well is the best care that scholars can give to texts.
Author : Anna Feuerstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108492966
Examines how liberal thought influenced representations of animals within nineteenth-century animal welfare discourse and the Victorian novel.
Author : Hosanna Krienke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108844840
This interdisciplinary study examines how holistic aftercare became a crucial supplement to scientific medicine in nineteenth-century Britain.
Author : LESLEE. THORNE-MURPHY
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Bazaars (Charities)
ISBN : 9780192866882
Charity bazaars were a key method women used to intervene in political, social, and cultural affairs. Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generated for charity bazaars--which shaped the social, political, and literary movements of its time.
Author : Aaron Rosenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009271806
At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
