Heroism In Victorian Periodicals 1850 1900

Author : Christiane Hadamitzky
Publisher : Ergon Verlag
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Chamber's Journal
ISBN : 3956507231

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Heroism in Victorian Periodicals 1850-1900 by Christiane Hadamitzky Pdf

Nineteenth century Britain was an age of rapid technological, political and societal change. This was also reflected in the media: Industrially-produced print media opened a mass market with publications for almost any (niche-) interest one could think of. The societal changes also resulted in a growing need for orientation which in many publications was answered using the semantics of the heroic. As guiding figures, heroes were supposed to offer role models for a variety different readerships. By analysing Chambers's Journal, Fraser's Magazine and Leisure Hour, this study analyses different conceptions of the heroic on the Victorian print market and shows how the heroic was used for different didactic, social and political purposes in addressing different readerships within the context of changing power structures.

Author : Christiane Hadamitzky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Chamber's Journal
ISBN : 395650724X

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Heroism in Victorian Periodicals 1850–1900 by Christiane Hadamitzky Pdf

Author : Marianne Van Remoortel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137435996

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Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical by Marianne Van Remoortel Pdf

Covering a wide range of magazine work, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry.

Author : John Price
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441136756

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Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian by John Price Pdf

Heroism in the 19th and early 20th centuries is synonymous with military endeavours, imperial adventures and the 'great men of history'. There was, however, another prominent and influential strand of the idea which has, until now, been largely overlooked. This book seeks to address this oversight and establish new avenues of study by revealing and examining 'everyday' heroism; acts of life-risking bravery, undertaken by otherwise ordinary individuals, largely in the course of their daily lives and within quotidian surroundings. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, John Price charts and investigates the growth and development of this important discourse, presenting in-depth case studies of The Albert Medal and the Carnegie Hero Fund alongside a nationwide analysis of heroism monuments and an exploration of radical approaches to the concept. Unlike its military and imperial counterparts, everyday heroism embraced the heroine and this study reflects that with an examination of female heroism. Discovering why certain individuals or acts were accorded the status of being 'heroic' also provides insights into those that recognized them. Heroism is a flexible and malleable constellation of ideas, shaped or constructed along different lines by different people, so if you want to identify the characteristics of a group or society, much can be learnt by studying those it holds up as heroic. Consequently, Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian provides valuable and revealing evidence for a wide range of social and cultural topics including; class, gender, identity, memory, celebrity, and literary and visual culture.

Author : Simon Wendt
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783593506173

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Extraordinary Ordinariness by Simon Wendt Pdf

This collection of essays looks at everyday heroes and heroines--ordinary men, women, and children who are honored for actual or imagined feats. Comparing the United States, Germany, and Britain, it asks both when this particular hero type first emerged and how it was discussed and depicted in political discourse, mass media, literature, film, and other forms of popular culture. Looking across fields of study, countries, and centuries, this book sheds new light on the many social, cultural, and political functions that our everyday heroes have served.

Author : Walter E. Houghton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1766 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135795498

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The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900 by Walter E. Houghton Pdf

`Simply a great work of reference. Future scholars will wonder how anybody managed without the Wellesley Index. It will quietly change the whole nature of Victorian studies.' Christopher Ricks, New Statesman `It is now impossible to think of Victorian literary and historical studies without the benefit of it ... this is a very remarkable achievement indeed ... the complete set will be a monument to the Houghtons foresight, pertinacity and skill.' TLS

Author : Margaret Markwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351152549

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New Men in Trollope's Novels by Margaret Markwick Pdf

New Men in Trollope's Novels challenges the popular construction of Victorian men as patriarchal despots and suggests that hands-on fatherhood may have been a nineteenth-century norm. Beginning with an evaluation of the evidence for cultural determinations of masculinity during Trollope's times, the author sets the stage with a discussion of the religious, philosophical, and educational influences that informed the evolution of Trollope's personal views of masculinity as he grew from boyhood into later manhood. Her treatment of his novels, drawing on a wide selection from across the oevre, shows that sensitive examination of Trollope's texts discovers him advancing a startlingly modern model of manhood under a veneer of conformity. Trollope's independent views on child-rearing, education, courtship, marriage, parenthood, and gay men are also discussed within the context of Victorian culture in this witty, original, and immensely knowledgeable study of Victorian masculinity.

Author : Irene Euphemia Smale
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031190285

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Women, Theology and Evangelical Children’s Literature, 1780-1900 by Irene Euphemia Smale Pdf

This book provides a wealth of fascinating information about many significant and lesser-known nineteenth-century Christian authors, mostly women, who were motivated to write material specifically for children’s spiritual edification because of their personal faith. It explores three prevalent theological and controversial doctrines of the period, namely Soteriology, Biblical Authority and Eschatology, in relation to children’s specifically engendered Christian literature. It traces the ecclesiastical networks and affiliations across the theological spectrum of Evangelical authors, publishers, theologians, clergy and scholars of the period. An unprecedented deluge of Evangelical literature was produced for millions of Sunday School children in the nineteenth century, resulting in one of its most prolific and profitable forms of publishing. It expanded into a vast industry whose magnitude, scope and scale is discussed throughout this book. Rather than dismissing Evangelical children’s literature as simplistic, formulaic, moral didacticism, this book argues that, in attempting to convert the mass reading public, nineteenth-century authors and publishers developed a complex, highly competitive genre of children’s literature to promote their particular theologies, faith and churchmanships, and to ultimately save the nation.

Author : Christine DeVine,Mary Ann Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443865005

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North and South by Christine DeVine,Mary Ann Wilson Pdf

North and South is a multi-dimensional look at a prevailing theme in current discourse on the concept of borders. This collection of essays invites us to cross historical, regional, and disciplinary boundaries. The contributors consider a range of primary texts, use a number of critical approaches, and make some surprising connections. The borders created by the concepts of “north” and “south” provoke us to ask if the terms continue to represent real divisions, or if usage and habit have drained them of any real meaning. And how have literary texts sought to represent and elucidate the divisions and to complicate and undermine such rigid categories? This collection of essays considers such questions and offers some tentative and original answers. The essays in North and South treat a wide variety of topics, generically and geographically, chronologically and creatively. They interrogate the elusive topic of boundaries symbolic and literal; boundaries as means of communication rather than division; boundaries that create borderlands; boundaries that invite transgression; boundaries that resist erasure. Across and within these boundaries, the theme of identity emerges: international, national, regional, gendered, racial, ethnic.

Author : Walter E. Houghton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0802019269

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The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals by Walter E. Houghton Pdf

Author : Andrew King,Alexis Easley,John Morton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317042310

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The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers by Andrew King,Alexis Easley,John Morton Pdf

The 2017 winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century British periodicals, this volume surveys the current state of research and offers researchers an in-depth examination of contemporary methodologies. The impact of digital media and archives on the field informs all discussions of the print archive. Contributors illustrate their arguments with examples and contextualize their topics within broader areas of study, while also reflecting on how the study of periodicals may evolve in the future. The Handbook will serve as a valuable resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century culture who are interested in issues of cultural formation, transformation, and transmission in a developing industrial and globalizing age, as well as those whose research focuses on the bibliographical and the micro case study. In addition to rendering a comprehensive review and critique of current research on nineteenth-century British periodicals, the Handbook suggests new avenues for research in the twenty-first century. "This volume's 30 chapters deal with practically every aspect of periodical research and with the specific topics and audiences the 19th-century periodical press addressed. It also covers matters such as digitization that did not exist or were in early development a generation ago. In addition to the essays, readers will find 50 illustrations, 54 pages of bibliography, and a chronology of the periodical press. This book gives seemingly endless insights into the ways periodicals and newspapers influenced and reflected 19th-century culture. It not only makes readers aware of problems involved in interpreting the history of the press but also offers suggestions for ways of untangling them and points the direction for future research. It will be a valuable resource for readers with interests in almost any aspect of 19th-century Britain. Summing Up: Highly recommended" - J. D. Vann, University of North Texas in CHOICE

Author : Jane Platt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137362445

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Suscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859-1929 by Jane Platt Pdf

This book reveals the huge sales and propagandist potential of Anglican parish magazines, while demonstrating the Anglican Church's misunderstanding of the real issues at its heart, and its collective collapse of confidence as it contemplated social change.

Author : Rachel E. Johnson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781625642387

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A Complete Identity by Rachel E. Johnson Pdf

This book offers an examination of the hero figure in the work of G. A. Henty (1832-1902) and George MacDonald (1824-1905) and a reassessment of oppositional critiques of their writing. It demonstrates the complementary characteristics of the hero figure which construct a complete identity commensurate with the Victorian ideal hero. The relationship between the expansion of the British Empire and youthful heroism is established through investigation of the Victorian political, social, and religious milieu, the construct of the child, and the construct of the hero. A connection between the exotic geographical space of empire and the unknown psychological space is drawn through examination of representation of the "other" in the work of Henty and MacDonald. This book demonstrates that Henty's work is more complex than the stereotypically linear, masculine, imperialistic critique of his stories as historical realism allows, and that MacDonald's work displays more evidence of historical embedding and ideological interpellation than the critical focus on his work as fantasy and fairy tale considers. Greater understanding of the effect of this heroic ideal on nineteenth-century society leads to a greater understanding of the implications for subsequent children's literature and Western cultures, including that of the twenty-first century.

Author : Jamie Gilham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350299658

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Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain by Jamie Gilham Pdf

Jamie Gilham collates the work of leading and emerging scholars of Islam in Britain, Christian-Muslim relations and Victorian Studies to offer fresh perspectives on Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain. The contributors reveal 19th-century attitudes and beliefs about Islam and Muslims to demonstrate the plurality of approaches and representations of Islam in Britain's past. Also bringing to life the stories and voices of early Muslim settlers and converts to Islam, this book examines the lived experience of Muslims in the Victorian period. Sources include political and academic writings, literature, travelogues, the press and other forms of popular culture. Intersectional themes include religion and religiosity, 'race' and ethnicity, gender, class, citizenship, empire and imperialism, and prejudice, discrimination and resilience.

Author : Susan Hamilton
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076001771216

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Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors by Susan Hamilton Pdf

Essays by Anna Brownell Jameson, Harriet Martineau, Frances Power Cobbe, Eliza Lynn Linton, Margaret Oliphant, Helen Taylor, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Mona Caird.