Gender Genre And Victorian Historical Writing

Author : Rohan Amanda Maitzen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136526510

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Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing by Rohan Amanda Maitzen Pdf

First published in 1999. and Middlemarch and of a range of nineteenth-century historical works, including works by and about women that are discussed extensively here for the first time. The blurring of boundaries between historical and fictional narratives, stimulated by the enormous success of Walter Scott's novels, and the development of social history are shown to have been key factors in an uneven, controversial, but persistent feminization of history, the first because of the longstanding association of novels with women the second because social history focuses on the private sphere, traditionally women's domain. Along with the appearance of numerous historical texts written by women and taking women as their subjects, these developments challenged conventional beliefs about historical authority and relevance that had long relegated women to the margins, both literally and metaphorically. In its exploration of these changes and their implications, Gender and Victorian Historical Writing revises standard assumptions about Victorian ideas of history, finding an awareness of and experimentation with gender and genre that prefigure theoretical and scholarly concerns in contemporary women's history.

Author : Alexis Easley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781611490169

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Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850–1914 by Alexis Easley Pdf

This study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914. Through lively analysis of rare cultural materials, Easley demonstrates the crucial role of the celebrity author in the formation of British national identity. As Victorians toured the homes and haunts of famous writers, they developed a sense of shared national heritage. At the same time, by reading sensational accounts of writers' lives, they were able to reconsider conventional gender roles and domestic arrangements. As women were featured in interviews and profiles, they were increasingly associated with the ephemerality of the popular press and were often excluded from emerging narratives of British literary history, which defined great literature as having a timeless appeal. Nevertheless, women writers were able to capitalize on celebrity media as a way of furthering their own careers and retelling history on their own terms. Press attention had a more positive effect on men's literary careers since they were expected to assume public identities; however, in some cases, media exposure had the effect of sensationalizing their lives, bodies, and careers. With the development of proto-feminist criticism and historiography, the life stories of male writers were increasingly used to expose unhealthy domestic relationships and imagine ideal forms of British masculinity. The first section of Literary Celebrity explores the practice of literary tourism in Victorian Britain, focusing specifically on the homes and haunts of Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Harriet Martineau. This investigation incorporates analysis of fascinating cultural texts, including maps, periodicals, and tourist guidebooks. Easley links the practice of literary tourism to a variety of cultural developments, including nationalism, urbanization, spiritualism, the women's movement, and the expansion of popular print culture. The second section provides fresh insight into the ways that celebrity culture informed thedevelopment of Victorian historiography. Easley demonstrates how women were able to re-tell history from a proto-feminist perspective by writing contemporary history, participating in architectural reform movements, and becoming active in literary societi

Author : Lisa Kasmer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611474954

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Novel Histories by Lisa Kasmer Pdf

Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 explores issues of historical and literary genres, historiography, and the gendering of civic and literary roles. It demonstrates the new and sometimes subversive ways that women authors pushed the limits of writing history in order to participate in contemporary national civic life otherwise closed to them.

Author : Mary Spongberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350016743

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Women Writers and the Nation's Past 1790-1860 by Mary Spongberg Pdf

1790 saw the publication of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France -- the definitive tract of modern conservatism as a political philosophy. Though women of the period wrote texts that clearly responded to and reacted against Burke's conception of English history and to the contemporary political events that continued to shape it, this conversation was largely ignored or dismissed, and much of it remains to be reconsidered today. Examining the works of women writers from Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft to the Strickland sisters and Mary Anne Everett Green, this book begins to recuperate that conversation and in doing so uncovers a more complete and nuanced picture of women's participation in the writing of history. Professor Mary Spongberg puts forward an alternate, feminized historiography of Britain that demonstrates how women writers' recourse to history caused them to become generically innovative and allowed them to participate in the political debates that framed the emergence of modern British historiography, and to push back against the Whig interpretation of history that predominated from 1790-1860.

Author : Mary Spongberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230203075

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Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance by Mary Spongberg Pdf

The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times. This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has shaped the genre of history. Mary Spongberg brings together for the first time an extensive survey of the progress of women's historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating the continuities between women's historical writings in the past and the development of a distinctly woman-centred historiography. Writing Women's History since the Renaissance also examines the relationship between women's history and the development of feminist consciousness, suggesting that the study of history has alerted women to their unequal status and enabled them to use history to achieve women's rights. Whether feminist or anti-feminist, women who have had their historical writings published have served as role models for women seeking a voice in the public sphere and have been instrumental in encouraging the growth of a feminist discourse.

Author : Anthony Brundage,Richard A. Cosgrove
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0804756864

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The Great Tradition by Anthony Brundage,Richard A. Cosgrove Pdf

This book examines the prominent role played by constitutional history from 1870 to 1960 in the creation of a positive sense of identity for Britain and the United States.

Author : Karen O'Brien,Karen Elisabeth O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521773492

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Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Karen O'Brien,Karen Elisabeth O'Brien Pdf

An original study of how Enlightenment ideas shaped the lives of women and the work of eighteenth-century women writers.

Author : R. Steinitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230339606

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Time, Space, and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century British Diary by R. Steinitz Pdf

Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today.

Author : Tara MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317317807

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The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel by Tara MacDonald Pdf

By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot and George Gissing.

Author : Lynette Felber
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874139813

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Clio's Daughters by Lynette Felber Pdf

They discover new texts and methodologies, exploring nineteenth-century British women's historiography, their writing of history, often through unexpected sources not previously regarded as historical venues: journalism, travel writing, architectural preservation, and costume balls."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anita Rose
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781443810197

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Gender and Victorian Reform by Anita Rose Pdf

Gender, in the nineteenth century as now, is an integral part of identity. As a result, gender, along with race and class, has long been a vital part of public discourse about social concerns and reform. The fourteen essays in Gender and Victorian Reform address the overt and subtle ways in which gender influenced social reform in Victorian England. In addition to investigating the more readily apparent instances of gender in the areas of suffrage, women's education, and marriage law reform, the contributors to this collection examine the structure of charitable organizations, the interpretation of language and literacy, ideas of beauty, and religion through the lens of gender and offer diverse approaches to Victorian literature and culture. Some examine specific texts or single canonical authors, others introduce the reader to little-known authors and texts, and still others focus on the culture of reform rather than specific literary texts. Essays are arranged into four parts, with Part I focusing on historical context and a revisioning of the historical romance. Part II addresses more specifically the role of women in public life and in the professions. The essays in Part III look even more specificallyat the connections among reform, gender, literacy and literary genre in Eliot, Collins, and Gaskell. The final four essays offer readings of the impact of gender ideology on beauty, dress, politics and religion. Taken as a whole, the essays in this collection present a serious consideration of the role of gender in art and in public life that spans the Victorian era. Reformist impulses are revealed in a number of Victorian texts that are not generally read as overtly political. In this way, this collection thoughtfully focuses on the influence of gender on a wide range of social movements, and moves the significance of gender beyond simply the content of Victorian fiction and the identity of the authors and into the more fundamental connection of discourse to reform."

Author : Christopher Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034892144

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Gender Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Literature by Christopher Parker Pdf

Whilst recognizing and building upon the enormous importance of both Victorian and twentieth-century perceptions of women's roles and the way these relate to assumptions about women's sexuality, this book is also concerned with more recently developed interests in the creation of male gender roles and different concepts of masculinity, and consequently with relations between, and within, the sexes. The second half of the nineteenth century saw a mounting attack upon the middle class family ideal which had been painstakingly developed in the preceding era; but the radicals did not have it all their own way.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English literature
ISBN : IND:30000081045720

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Victorian Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079635226

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Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Linda M. Shires
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136321313

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Rewriting the Victorians by Linda M. Shires Pdf

This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It analyzes the struggle for legitimacy and recognition in Victorian institutions and the struggle over meanings in ideological representation of the gendered subject in texts. Contributors cover diverse topics, including Victorian ideologies of motherhood, the male gaze, the cult of the male child genius in narrative painting, the press, and Victorian women and the French Revolution, discussing both well-known and less familiar Victorian texts.