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Author : Carolyn Vellenga Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0192659928
Studies Victorian parliamentiary literature in tandem with the novels of Charles Dickens as a means to explore the complex interaction of commercial literature with state experiments in publication.
Author : Carolyn Vellenga Berman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192845405
This book examines Charles Dickens's fiction alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative democracy--when the British government was under enormous political pressure to expand the franchise beyond a narrow band of male landowners. Contending that fiction and the literature of Parliament interacted at a host of levels--jostling one another in the same bookshops--it reads Dickens's novels in tandem with blue books, the practice texts of shorthand manuals, and Dickens's journalism. It shows how his fiction mocks parliamentary form (as in Pickwick Papers), canvasses the history of parliamentary representation (as in Bleak House), and depicts the relation of the People to the state as well as commerce (as in Little Dorrit). It thus rethinks the history of the Victorian novel by examining its rivalry with Parliament in the expanding world of print publication.
Author : Cumberland Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Social problems in literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024909611
Author : Cumberland Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4101400
Author : Kevin McLaughlin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780812202779
"The Paper Age" is the phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1837 to describe the monetary and literary inflation of the French Revolution—an age of mass-produced "Bank-paper" and "Book-paper." Carlyle's phrase is suggestive because it points to the particular substance—paper—that provides the basis for reflection on the mass media in much popular fiction appearing around the time of his historical essay. Rather than becoming a metaphor, however, paper in some of this fiction seems to display the more complex and elusive character of what Walter Benjamin evocatively calls "the decline of the aura." The critical perspective elaborated by Benjamin serves as the point of departure for the readings of paper proposed in Paperwork. Kevin McLaughlin argues for a literary-critical approach to the impact of the mass media on literature through a series of detailed interpretations of paper in fiction by Poe, Stevenson, Melville, Dickens, and Hardy. In this fiction, he argues, paper dramatizes the "withdrawal," as Benjamin puts it, of the "here and now" of the traditional work of art into the dispersing or distracting movement of the mass media. Paperwork seeks to challenge traditional concepts of medium and message that continue to inform studies of print culture and the mass media especially in the wake of industrialized production in the early nineteenth century. It breaks new ground in the exploration of the difference between mass culture and literature and will appeal to cultural historians and literary critics alike.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1717541550
The collection Miscellaneous Papers covers different topics of British politics, including agriculture, education, chivalry, and capital punishment.The volume also includes essays on Thackeray, Adelaide Anne Procter, the Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend, and the actor Charles Fechter....
Author : Robert L. Patten,John O. Jordan,Catherine Waters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191061110
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1567921337
In his 46 years, Orwell managed to publish ten books and two collections of essays. This volume, one in a set of four, brings together a selection of his non-fiction work - letters, essays, reviews and journalism. His work is broad in scope, moving from English cooking to totalitarianism.
Author : Michael Cotsell
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : France
ISBN : UCSC:32106014021254
This is a collection of critical essays on Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" by Thomas Carlyle, Walter Bagehot, George Lukacs, Leonard Manheim, Nicholas Rance, Albert Hutter, and other writers.
Author : Arihant Experts
Publisher : Arihant Publications India limited
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789324190710
The Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) programme of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has been designed with the aim to develop an understanding of teaching-learning process at secondary and senior-secondary level among student teachers. It focuses on enabling student-teachers to reflect critically on perspectives of education and integrate holistically the theory and practices to facilitate active engagement of learners for knowledge creation. The present edition of “IGNOU B. Ed. Extreme exam 2020” book is prepared to provide perfect study material that is required to clear this entrance paper. This book provides Model Solved Papers of 2019 in the starting so as to give the estimate on what pattern the paper could come so that preparation could be done accordingly. The whole syllabus divided into 2 parts that is further divided into sections and chapters by giving the complete coverage of syllabus. Each segment is carries ample amount of practice questions for the best outcome in the exam. ABOUT THE BOOK Model Solved Paper 2019, PART – A: General English Comprehension, Logical & Analytical Reasoning Ability, Educational & General Awareness, Technical – Learning and The School, PART – B: Science, Mathematics, Social Science, English, Samanya Hindi.
Author : Ruth Livesey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317045250
In nineteenth-century Britain, the effects of democracy in America were seen to spread from Congress all the way down to the personal habits of its citizens. Bringing together political theorists, historians, and literary scholars, this volume explores the idea of American democracy in nineteenth-century Britain. The essays span the period from Independence to the First World War and trace an intellectual history of Anglo-American relations during that period. Leading scholars trace the hopes and fears inspired by the American model of democracy in the works of commentators, including Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill, Richard Cobden, Charles Dilke, Matthew Arnold, Henry James and W. T. Stead. By examining the context of debates about American democracy and notions of ’culture’, citizenship, and race, the collection sheds fresh light on well-documented moments of British political history, such as the Reform Acts, the Abolition of Slavery Act, and the Anti-Corn Law agitation. The volume also explores the ways in which British Liberalism was shaped by the American example and draws attention to the importance of print culture in furthering radical political dialogue between the two nations. As the comprehensive introduction makes clear, this collection makes an important contribution to transatlantic studies and our growing sense of a nineteenth-century modernity shaped by an Atlantic exchange. It is an essential reference point for all interested in the history of the idea of democracy, its political evolution, and its perceived cultural consequences.
Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674072237
This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns, the author traces a double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.
Author : Rebecca Roach
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198825418
Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on television, and in anthologies; as a method they are a major tool of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history projects, and journalism; and in the book trade interviews with authors are a major promotional device. We live in an 'interview society'. How did this happen? What is it about the interview form that we find so appealing and horrifying? Are we all just gossips or is there something more to it? What are the implications of our reliance on this bizarre dynamic for publicity, subjectivity, and democracy? Literature and the Rise of the Interview addresses these questions from the perspective of literary culture. The book traces the ways in which the interview form has been conceived and deployed by writers, and interviewing has been understood as a literary-critical practice. It excavates what we might call a 'poetics' of the interview form and practice. In so doing it covers 150 years and four continents. It includes a diverse rostrum of well-known writers, such as Henry James, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Djuna Barnes, William Burroughs, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee and Toni Morrison, while reintroducing some individuals that history has forgotten, such as Betty Ross, 'Queen of Interviewers', and Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel's profligate son. Together these stories expose the interview's position in the literary imagination and consider what this might tell us about conceptions of literature, authorship, and reading communities in modernity.
Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112056509729
Author : Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691205533
How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial mining The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new vision of civilization where humans are dependent on finite, nonrenewable stores of earthly resources, and traces how the threatening horizon of resource exhaustion worked its way into narrative form. Britain was the first nation to transition to industry based on fossil fuels, which put its novelists and other writers in the remarkable position of mediating the emergence of extraction-based life. Miller looks at works like Hard Times, The Mill on the Floss, and Sons and Lovers, showing how the provincial realist novel’s longstanding reliance on marriage and inheritance plots transforms against the backdrop of exhaustion to withhold the promise of reproductive futurity. She explores how adventure stories like Treasure Island and Heart of Darkness reorient fictional space toward the resource frontier. And she shows how utopian and fantasy works like “Sultana’s Dream,” The Time Machine, and The Hobbit offer imaginative ways of envisioning energy beyond extractivism. This illuminating book reveals how an era marked by violent mineral resource rushes gave rise to literary forms and genres that extend extractivism as a mode of environmental understanding.
